Claim: COVID-19 diagnostic tests were patented in 2015, years before the disease was officially discovered.
Fact-check: Claims COVID tests invented before virus emerged are patently wrong
Verdict: false. the patent was filed in may 2020 but referred to "related" applications from earlier years which do not mention covid-19.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: William Summers
Date published: 2022-07-12T00:00:00