“Gasoline and diesel can be used as disinfectant against the virus that causes COVID-19.”
What Vera Files found
Health experts do not recommend using gasoline and/or diesel as disinfectant. Both substances, considered toxic, has not been shown to kill the virus that causes COVID-19 and may be very harmful to human health.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 21 July 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 6 August 2020, 16 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/-50aoOOYew0?t=3198
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