Claim: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's chief health officer promoted ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19.
Fact-check: False claim links Shinzo Abe to ivermectin as a COVID treatment
Verdict: false. the claim appears to be a misattribution of comments made by the chair of a non-government tokyo medical body after mr abe left office.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: William Summers
Date published: 2022-07-21T00:00:00