The claim
Coronavirus was "declassified on 19 March 2020 as no longer highly contagious infectious disease" and this is proof the virus is harmless.
Original publisher’s rating
Coronavirus no longer holds the technical classification as a high consequence infectious disease, which refers to fatality rate, but this in no way means it is harmless.
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