Fact-Checked by: Facta
2021/02/18 | Italy
The CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance Database
Here is the database that gathers all of the falsehoods that have been detected by the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus alliance. This database unites fact-checkers in more than 70 countries and includes articles published in at least 40 languages. Para búsquedas en español, haz clic aquí. Faça buscas em português aqui.
Fact-Checked by: La Silla Vacía
2021/01/22 | Colombia
FALSE: Nobel medicine Tasuku Honjo said that coronavirus was not natural
Fact-Checked by: Myth Detector
2020/12/06 | Georgia, Japan
FALSE: A Japanese Nobel laureate professor Tasuku Honjo, who has worked with researchers from Wuhan University for 4 years, stated that the coronavirus didn’t evolve naturally. If the coronavirus was natural, it’d only impact countries in the same climate zone as China – It would spread only in cold places, and die in hot places.
Fact-Checked by: FactCheck Georgia
2020/12/04 | Georgia
FALSE: Immunologist Tasuku Honjo stated that the coronavirus is a man-made virus, intentionally manufactured in a lab
Fact-Checked by: AFP
2020/09/23 | Chile
MISLEADING: Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said “They are going to make their own viruses and they will sell you the antidote.” In the same meme, the Nobel Prize in Medicine Tasuku Honjo is quoted as saying: “Covid 19 is not natural, it is manufactured.”
Fact-Checked by: Chequeado
2020/07/31 | Argentina
FALSE: Tasuku Honjo, Nobel Prize in Medicine, said that the coronavirus “is not natural”
Fact-Checked by: Agência Lupa
2020/06/05 | Brazil
FALSE: Tasuku Honjo, Nobel prize winner, stated that the SARS-Cov-2 was made in a lab in Wuhan, where he used to work.
Fact-Checked by: India Today
2020/06/03 | India
FALSE: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo has said China manufactured coronavirus and he once worked at the Wuhan lab which later produced it.
Fact-Checked by: Check Your Fact
2020/05/21 | United States
FALSE: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory.
Fact-Checked by: Fatabyyano
2020/05/18 | Yemen, Egypt
FALSE: Tasuku Honjo, a medicine nobel prize winner, said that COVID-19 is a synthetic virus that was made in china
Fact-Checked by: Källkritikbyrån
2020/05/14 | Sweden
FALSE: A claim that the Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo had said that the coronavirus was manmade.
Fact-Checked by: Doğruluk Payı
2020/05/09 | Turkey
FALSE: Nobel Prize Winning Professor Tasuku Honjo announced that the coronavirus is human-made.
Fact-Checked by: PesaCheck
2020/04/30 | Mali, Japan
FALSE: Professor Tasuku Honjo, Nobel Laureate 2018 Medicine, supports the theory that the coronavirus is not natural and was invented by China.
Fact-Checked by: Full Fact
2020/04/30 | United Kingdom
FALSE: Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, caused a sensation today in the media by saying that the coronavirus is not natural.
Fact-Checked by: La Silla Vacía
2020/04/29 | Colombia
FALSE: The japanese doctor Tasuku Honjo says that coronavirus is not natural.
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