“President Duterte immediately convened the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases after the World Health Organization issued a warning about the novel coronavirus.”
Rodrigo Duterte
Claim dated 30 Jun 2020.
Vera Files rated thisFalse
What Vera Files found
The IATF-EID first convened for the novel coronavirus threat on Jan. 28, 24 days after WHO’s first public warning.
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In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 30 June 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 8 July 2020, 8 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
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/presidential-speech/talk-to-the-people-of-president-rodrigo-roa-duter…
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