Fact-Checked by: Aos Fatos
2020/01/24 | Brazil
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: BuzzFeed Japan
2020/01/24 | Japan
False: A Chinese person, who was taken from Kansai airport (in Osaka, Japan) to a hospital, has run away before they could be tested.
Fact-Checked by: Ellinika Hoaxes
2020/01/24 | Greece
False: A new case of novel coronavirus was registered in Saudi Arabia. A nurse from India was diagnosed with the specific strain of the virus.
Fact-Checked by: FactCheck.org
2020/01/24 | United States
(Org. doesn't apply rating): “So let me get this straight about this virus. It’s “new” yet it was lab created and patented in 2015 (in development since 03’).”
Fact-Checked by: FactCheck.org
2020/01/24 | United States
(Org. doesn't apply rating): “So let me get this straight about this virus. It’s “new” yet it was lab created and patented in 2015 (in development since 03’).
Fact-Checked by: franceinfo
2020/01/24 | France
Misleading: A Chinese woman from Wuhan arrived in France with suspected symptoms of coronavirus.
Fact-Checked by: LeadStories
2020/01/24 | United States
Misleading: A 2015 research article about a lab-made coronavirus referred to the current outbreak.
Fact-Checked by: LeadStories
2020/01/24 | United States
False: That the China-centered coronavirus had infected 2.8 million people and killed 112,000.
Fact-Checked by: PolitiFact
2020/01/24 | United States
FALSE: There’s a ‘coronavirus patent’, FEMA ‘proposes martial law’, Gates Foundation predicted virus, ‘funded group who owns virus patent’, coronavirus was ‘created in a lab’ as a ‘bioweapon for population control’.
Fact-Checked by: FactCheck.org
2020/01/24 | United States
(Org. doesn't apply rating): “The new fad disease called the ‘coronavirus’ is sweeping headlines. Funny enough, there was a patent for the coronavirus was filed in 2015 and granted in 2018.”
Fact-Checked by: FactCheck.org
2020/01/24 | United States
(Org. doesn't apply rating): “So let me get this straight about this virus. It’s ‘new’ yet it was lab created and patented in 2015 (in development since 03’).”
Fact-Checked by: Science Feedback
2020/01/23 | United States
Misleading: “[The coronavirus is] ‘new’ yet it was lab-created and patented in 2015”.
Fact-Checked by: Efecto Cocuyo
2020/01/23 | Venezuela
False: The first case of new coronavirus in Venezuela has been registered. It comes from the Bolivar state.
Fact-Checked by: Science Feedback
2020/01/23 | United States
Misleading: “[The coronavirus is] ‘new’ yet it was lab-created and patented in 2015”.
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