Claim: The fake news about India reaching third stage transmission of the coronavirus outbreak evidently took the internet by storm. The message issuing a public warning is attributed to Indian Council of Medical Research . The message also claims that if left unchecked, the total death count by the coronavirus outbreak in India could reach the number of fifty thousand. The message first started circulating on WhatsApp. It was later shared by many people on Facebook and other social media platforms as well. Some netizens went to the extent of making fake World Health Organisation templates to spread the misleading news.
Fact-check: 100 fake COVID-19 WhatsApp forwards that we almost believed - First Check
Verdict: the icmr has not released an estimate of how many people will die due to the coronavirus pandemic in india.
Organisation: First Check
Author: Deepika Khurana
Date published: 2020-06-12T00:13:42