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“Leo Varadkar is going to the Supreme Court to make a coronavirus vaccine mandatory”

TheJournal.ie says: The Department of the Taoiseach confirmed that the claim was false. Additionally, it would not be possible for Leo Varadkar to go straight to the Supreme Court.

“Italy has discovered that Covid-19 is a bacterium rather than a virus”

TheJournal.ie says: Covid-19 is a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is a type of coronavirus.

“Anthony Fauci said a Covid-19 vaccine must be delivered to people without 'proper studies”

TheJournal.ie says: A search of interviews, social media, factchecks from several other organisation, US news websites and news wire services shows nothing to back up the claim that Fauci has ever said this.

“European air travel guidelines show there is no need to quarantine visitors from overseas”

TheJournal.ie says: An ECDC document notes that no confirmed transmissions of Covid-19 have taken place on an aircraft so far, the measures outlined within it acknowledge that it is a possibility.

“Bill Gates briefed the CIA in 2005 about a vaccine to immunise religious fanatics”

TheJournal.ie says: Bill Gates did not make the alleged statement, and a high definition version of a video that claims to be of Bill Gates shows that it is not him.

“Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Anthony Fauci and the WHO are being charged with genocide”

TheJournal.ie says: The post and the note are false: the people and organisations mentioned have not been charged with war crimes.

“Italy wants to charge Bill Gates with crimes against humanity”

TheJournal.ie says: An Independent MP said that Gates should be charged, but she does not represent the wider views of the Italian government - she was even heckled in the chamber.

“Donald Trump said he'd run as a Republican because of their 'dumb voters”

TheJournal.ie says: A commonly-shared image purporting to be from a 1998 interview with People Magazine is a fake.

“The 'survival rate' for Covid-19 is above 99.9%”

TheJournal.ie says: Researchers estimated the overall death rate, including unconfirmed cases, at 0.66%

“The world has been trying to treat Covid-19 incorrectly and patients are being misdiagnosed with pneumonia.”

TheJournal.ie says: It’s wrong to say that Covid-19 patients have been wrongly diagnosed with pneumonia. It has been proven that many patients with Covid-19 have developed pneumonia – so while blood clotting and thrombosis-related conditio…

“TheJournal.ie is closing down.”

TheJournal.ie says: The Journal.ie is not closing down, and an image which claims to be a letter to staff is false.

“The Covid-19 virus was man made and vaccines should not be taken”

“The government has issued a €350 payment to everyone in the country”

TheJournal.ie says: The claim was made in a scam text message

“A Nazi flag was flown in Belfast on VE day 2020”

TheJournal.ie says: The image in the post is real, but it is from 2015 when the flag was briefly put up before being taken down by local residents a short time later.

“Local residents in Dublin held a “street party” in part of the capital on 1 May.”

TheJournal.ie says: The video is of footage taken in early April.

“Leaving hand sanitiser in your car during hot weather will cause it to catch fire”

TheJournal.ie says: In order for a fire to start at a temperature below several hundred degrees Celsius, there would need to be a spark or source of ignition involved - it would not auto-ignite at summer weather temperatures.

“Staff in Irish hospitals told not to call patients 'dear', 'love' or 'lads”

“Taoiseach Micheál Martin has been quoted in The Irish Farmers Journal as saying he is in favour of the reduction of Ireland's national cattle herd”