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Alpine rubbish Twitter ‘hoax' of a positive test

Alpine have rubbished reports based on a Twitter comment, in which the user himself later used the word ‘hoax', that one of their drivers had tested positive for Covid-19. In the build-up to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, a website or two picked up a story that one of the Alpine drivers had tested positive for the coronavirus. Which driver, Fernando Alonso or Esteban Ocon, they couldn't say. The story was based on a Tweet that included a screenshot of Alpine reserve driver Daniil Kvyat's Instagram feed showing photographs of the Imola paddock. It included the words: ‘It confirms what several Italian media suspected… one of the two Alpine drivers has had to be confined for...
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