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  • 2020-03-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Photo of migrants drowned in 2013, not Italy’s coronavirus victims (en)
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  • A photo of dozens of wooden coffins , a rose on top of each, has been posted on a popular Kenyan Facebook group. Text above the photo urges people to socially distance themselves from others because of the new coronavirus . It reads: In case you’re still not convinced to say home for you & ur beloved ones ... Here’s a picture from Italy! The post itself asks Kenyans to say a word of prayer for our fellow Italians as conditions about corona r getting worse. Italy is one of the countries hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic . To date, the European country has over 74,000 cases of Covid-19 , with more than 7,500 deaths. Does the photo show the coffins of Italy’s coronavirus victims? We checked. African migrants drowned seeking asylum A reverse image search revealed that the photo was taken on 5 October 2013 on Lampedusa , an Italian island near the coast of Tunisia in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s in the Getty Images collection. The caption reads: Coffins of some of the African migrants killed in a shipwreck off the Italian coast sit in a hangar at the Lampedusa airport on October 5, 2013 in Lampedusa, Italy. The photo was taken in Italy, but in 2013, and shows another tragedy. The dead are not Covid-19 victims, but African migrants who drowned seeking asylum in Italy. – Grace Gichuhi (en)
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