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Collected Item: ““El consumo de alpaca y llama combate el coronavirus. Está comprobado científicamente que combate al COVID-19”.”

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“El consumo de alpaca y llama combate el coronavirus. Está comprobado científicamente que combate al COVID-19”.

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news article

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News article from EL Comercio that fact checks the statemet from Arequipa's governor: “El consumo de alpaca y llama combate el coronavirus. Está comprobado científicamente que combate al COVID-19”. A number of different solutions have been proposed to combat COVID in Peru, but the idea of eating llama meat is one of the strangest.

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Food, Peru, Arequipa, Lima, Elmer Cáceres Llica

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https://web.archive.org/web/20200906004815/https://elcomercio.pe/politica/actualidad/fact-checking-la-carne-de-llama-combate-el-covid-19-como-lo-sostiene-el-gobernador-de-arequipa-coronavirus-noticia/

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Jonathan Castro

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2020-08-16
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