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R.சந்தர்ராஜன் அவர்கள் இன்று மாரடைப்பால் அகாலமரணம் அடைந்தார் என்று தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்.
Publisher’s rating: Fake
“Aprendendo a Verificar pressão alta ou baixa no caso de não ter aparelho por perto”.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Maior pedra retirada de um rins no Hospital Getúlio Vargas em Recife Pernambuco. Pedra com 2 kilos e 300 gramas
Publisher’s rating: Falso
Says the number of coronavirus cases in the United States is "going very substantially down, not up."
Publisher’s rating: Public health experts dispute
"I don’t think (the spread of the coronavirus to the United States is) inevitable. I think that there’s a chance it could get worse. There’s a chance that it could get fairly, substantially worse, but nothing’s inevitable ... There’s a chance that it won’t spread, too."
Publisher’s rating: Public health experts dispute
"We have a total of 15 people, and they’re in a process of recovering with some already having fully recovered."
Publisher’s rating: Omits patients diagnosed abroad
Says the coronavirus "is a flu. This is like a flu."
Publisher’s rating: Not the same virus
"We'll essentially have a flu shot for (the coronavirus) in a fairly quick manner."
Publisher’s rating: Vaccine one year away
"A lot of people think that (the coronavirus) goes away in April with the heat."
Publisher’s rating: Too soon to know
"The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year."
Publisher’s rating: CDC range is lower
"Ebola, you disintegrated, especially at the beginning ... You got Ebola, that was it. This one is different, much different."
Publisher’s rating: Refers to late stages
"We closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas, areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard. And we did it very early. A lot of people thought we shouldn’t have done it that early, and we did, and it turned out to be a very good thing."
Publisher’s rating: Ban placed Jan. 31
Bilder zeigen leere Regale in einem italienischen Supermarkt nach dem Ausbruch des Coronavirus.
Publisher’s rating: Die Bilder sind echt und im Supermarkt Esselunga in Mailand entstanden. Mehrere italienische Medien berichteten über die Hamsterkäufe nach dem Ausbruch des Coronavirus. Allerdings ereignete sich dieser Vorfall an einem Sonntag, als viele andere Geschäfte geschlossen hatten.
Coronavirus patients in China are being caught by officials on a highway
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY examined a video circulating with the claim that Chinese officials were catching coronavirus patients on a highway. Its review says the footage showed a China SWAT team conducting a mock drill to practise dealing with coronavirus patients—not officials apprehending actual patients.
Ein Bild zeigt einen Mann mit Gasmaske und überfülltem Einkaufswagen. Es wird behauptet, dass das Bild in Tirol entstanden ist und im Zusammenhang mit dem Coronavirus steht.
Publisher’s rating: Das Bild ist echt und in einer Hofer-Filiale im „west Einkaufszentrum” in Innsbruck entstanden. Es lässt sich auch mehr Bild- und Videomaterial von dem Mann finden. Ein Zusammenhang mit dem Ausbruch des Coronavirus ist wahrscheinlich. Eine Inszenierung kann jedoch nicht gänzlich ausgeschlossen werden.
திருமங்கலம் அரசு மருத்துவமனையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்ட திரு.கார்த்திக் ஆறுமுகம் வாலிபனுக்கு கொரோனா வைரஸ் உள்ளது என மருத்துவர்களால் உறுதி செய்யப்பட்டது. எண்ணெய் பலகாரங்களால் கொரோனா வைரஸ் பரவுகிறது. எனவே மக்கள் கவனமாக இருக்கக்கோரி மத்திய அரசு வலியுறுத்துகிறது. கொரோனா வைரஸ் திருமங்கலம் பிராய்லர் கோழிக் கடைகளில் உள்ள அனைத்து கோழிகளையும் தாக்கி உள்ளது.
Publisher’s rating: Fake
El doctor Gerardo Dovakin ha descubierto una vacuna contra el coronavirus
Publisher’s rating: Falso
The claim concerned a social-media post about a supposed Argentine doctor who had discovered a coronavirus vaccine and said it was being administered in Spain as a precaution. Newtral reports that it checked the image accompanying the post using reverse-image search. The image showed Argentine actor Ramiro Blas, who played doctor Carlos Sandoval Castro in the series *Vis a Vis*—not a doctor named Gerardo Dovakin. The article also states that, at the time of its investigation, no vaccine against COVID-19 existed. [S1: “Uno de ellos es la imagen de un supuesto doctor argentino que habría descubierto una vacuna contra el virus. ‘La están aplicando en España por prevención’, agrega el contenido. Es falso. Aún no existe vacuna contra el COVID-19, nombre científico del virus.”; “A través de una búsqueda inversa, encontramos que la imagen que acompaña el texto corresponde a Ramiro Blas, un actor argentino que actuó como el doctor Carlos Sandoval Castro en la serie Vis a Vis. Por ende, no es el doctor ‘Gerardo Dovakin’”] The post also claimed that the supposed doctor was being ignored by national media because he had participated in the autopsy of prosecutor Alberto Nisman. Newtral says that claim was false too: it reports that Argentina’s Federal Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 3, which was investigating Nisman’s death, confirmed through the fact-checking organization Chequeado that Gerardo Dovakin did not appear in the case. [S1: “A continuación, el texto indica que descubrió una vacuna del coronavirus pero que los medios nacionales no lo mencionan porque ‘participó en la autopsia de Nisman determinando que lo asesinaron’. Esto también es falso.”; “A través de Chequeado, que es parte de la red internacional de verificadores como Newtral.es, la Fiscalía Nacional en lo Criminal y Correccional Federal n°3, a cargo de la investigación de la muerte del fiscal, ha confirmado que ‘Gerardo Dovakin’ no figura en la causa.”] The article provides context for the Nisman reference: it says he died in Buenos Aires on January 18, 2015, and that in June 2018 Argentina’s courts confirmed his death was a homicide, while the perpetrators had not been determined and the investigation continued. These details do not identify Dovakin as a participant; the prosecutor’s office’s reported confirmation directly addresses that part of the post. [S1: “Alberto Nisman fue un fiscal argentino que falleció la noche del 18 de enero de 2015 en Buenos Aires.”; “Sin embargo, en junio de 2018, la justicia del país austral confirmó que la muerte del fiscal fue por homicidio, aunque hasta el momento no determinó quiénes habrían sido los autores materiales, lo que aún se sigue investigando.”]







