“Italy has discovered that Covid-19 is a bacterium rather than a virus”
Social media posts
Claim dated 3 Jun 2020.
TheJournal.ie rated thisFalse
What TheJournal.ie found
Covid-19 is a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is a type of coronavirus.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 3 June 2020. TheJournal.ie (Ireland) looked into it and published its finding on 4 June 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
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