“Hardheaded Filipinos were to blame for the spread of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines.”
What Vera Files found
The Department of Health explained that the surge of COVID-19 cases in the country is due to the increase in testing and contact tracing capacity, the ongoing community transmission, and delay in reporting of confirmed cases. Recent surveys show that a majority of Filipinos were always following health protocols to avoid getting infected, contradicting the claim.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Vicente Sotto III made this claim around 3 October 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 20 October 2020, 17 days later. Its rating was “Baseless”.
Vicente Sotto III has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- legacy.senate.gov.phhttp://legacy.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2020/1003_prib1.asp
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