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: 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: Vistinomer

2020/09/28 | North Macedonia

FALSE: The text implies that wearing a protective mask can cause cancer, manipulating a quote from a doctor and Nobel laureate who 50 years ago said that if 35% of healthy cells were deprived of oxygen, they would turn into carcinogens in just two days.

Fact-Checked by: INFACT

2020/08/14 | Japan

FALSE: The Nobel Prize winner for inventing the PCR method says it is not suitable for virus detection.

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

2020/06/30 | Brazil

FALSE: Denis Mukwege, Nobel Award laureate, resigned his post as head of a commitee to deal with the pandemic after being asked to forge the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Fact-Checked by: Facta

2020/06/22 | Italy

FALSE: A picture with a quote attributed to the Nobel Prize Dénis Mukwege, where he says that he was obliged to classify all the recent demises as Covid-19 related deaths.

Fact-Checked by: AFP

2020/06/19 | France

FALSE: Congolese Nobel Prize Denis Mukwege said he doubted COVID-19 was real

Fact-Checked by: AFP

2020/06/15 | Africa

FALSE: Viral posts circulating in Africa claim Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege resigned from the leadership of two COVID-19 task forces in DR Congo because he was told to manipulate patient numbers.

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: BOOM FactCheck

2020/05/01 | Myanmar

FALSE: The Japanese Nobel laureate says the coronavirus is not naturally occurring.

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.

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