Claim: A viral post widely circulated on WhatsApp claims that scientists have discovered how to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic. The post which is also a screengrab in a news format has a text highlighted that read
Fact-check: 100 fake COVID-19 WhatsApp forwards that we almost believed - First Check
Verdict: the message has no scientific relevance because according to who, there is no specific medicine recommended to prevent or treat the novel coronavirus so far. also, the format of the image which appears to be a news bulletin was created using certain meme generators to mislead people.
Organisation: First Check
Author: Deepika Khurana
Date published: 2020-06-12T00:13:42