Monkeys are stealing food from a hospital in South Africa.
It shows a troop of monkeys scavenging for food among patients in a hospital ward., “Pretoria hospital wtf and we prepared for the corona virus omf (sic),” the caption reads., As the monkeys invade the ward, a startled voice repeatedly exclaims “Haibo!” -- an isiZulu word expressing disbelief., The video was again linked to a Pretoria hospital by a Facebook news account with 1.3 million followers. Hours later the post was edited and the word "Pretoria"\xa0was replaced with "Durban", a coastal city in KwaZulu-Natal province more than 500 km away., Another post here with a longer version of the video alleged the hospital was “somewhere in Zimbabwe”, but some users instantly rejected the claim in the comments., The clip shows a ward inside RK Khan Hospital, a large government-run facility in Durban. It is not one of the nine hospitals designated to treat patients infected with the novel coronavirus., News of the invading primates first made headlines in February 2019. Local media published the video and news coverage prompted former Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi to set up a task team to find ways of keeping the intruders out., , Monkeys are a common sight in Durban and regularly target homes in search of food., AFP has contacted the hospital for comment but is yet to receive a reply., As of March 13, South Africa has had 24\xa0people test\xa0positive for the novel coronavirus., , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
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