“The Philippines was 133rd in the global ranking of cases per million (population).”
What Vera Files found
The Philippines ranked 110th (as of March 11, 2021) and 109th (as of March 12, 2021) among countries with total COVID-19 cases per million population, based on Our World In Data’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 12 March 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 25 March 2021, 13 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…
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/C0yNJOWaEJA?t=1650
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