“India ranked first in in the Western Pacific region in terms of COVID-19 cases per million population, followed by Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Singapore, then the Philippines.”
Harry Roque
Presidential Spokesperson. Claim dated 29 Jun 2020.
Vera Files rated thisFalse
What Vera Files found
The data presented were the total number of cases, not cases per million population, of the countries mentioned.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque (Presidential Spokesperson) made this claim around 29 June 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 7 July 2020, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/press-briefing/press-briefing-of-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roqu…
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