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COVID-19 protesters

The coronavirus pandemic saw misinformation and conspiracy theories abound around the scale of the pandemic and its origin, prevention, diagnosis and also treatments for the disease. Some took to the streets to protest.

Rights: Michael Swan, CC BY-ND 2.0

Published: 7 August 2020Size: 4.17 MB

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