“The Philippines was the "earliest...in the world" to impose a lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19.”
What Vera Files found
At least five other countries -- China, Vietnam, Italy, Mongolia, and Saudi Arabia -- were ahead of the Philippines in declaring a lockdown due to COVID-19.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Imee Marcos made this claim around 30 November 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 December 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Imee Marcos has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/28ENGmdZIxU?t=168
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