“Testing kits in the United Kingdom supplied by China are contaminated with COVID-19”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
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“This particular pandemic is one where I don’t think nationwide, there’s been a single fatality under 25.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“4,800 inmates have been released to prevent COVID-19”
PesaCheck rated this: TRUE
“59 Kenyans killed after drinking Dettol to prevent COVID-19”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE
“59 Kenyans killed after drinking Dettol to prevent COVID-19”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“59 people die as pastor gives them dettol to drink in church to prevent coronavirus.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“And there’s also other studies, you know, with the malaria, that the malaria countries have very little — people that take this drug for malaria, which is very effective for malaria — that those countries have very little of this virus.”
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
“Claim: Does every 100 year this world facing a pandemic”
Fact Crescendo rated this: Partly False
“In Italy, they have thrown their money on the streets. A clear message to the whole world that money is not enough when health is in danger.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Man in Italy killed self after he lost his family to coronavirus”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“People are handing out masks “doused with chemicals which knocks you out cold” so they can rob you.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says a pandemic occurs exactly every 100 years.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, “is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed, it is killed.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“Says cutting out sugar and drinking hot lemon water will cure cancer.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The Government of Andhra Pradesh has made Kanipakam temple a quarantine center for coronavirus suspects”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Video of a man spitting in the face of another man in the New York subway to spread the Coronavirus”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Video of dead bodies of COVID-19 infected persons washed ashore as they were thrown in to the seas by some countries”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
“Video shows bodies of COVID-19 infected patients being dumped in water”
The Quint rated this: FALSE
“We’ve been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive-thru tests available in the critical locations identified by public health professionals. The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed without having to leave your car.”
PolitiFact rated this: Still in the works
“While all COVID-19 news has been going on, the U.S. Government has been sneakily trying to remove end-to-end encryption” which means “the government will be able to see all of your messages and listen to all of your calls.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False