Claim: As cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus continue to climb, information on the number of people infected and the World Health Organisation's  response to the outbreak continues to spread on social media.
Fact-check: The WHO has not labelled coronavirus a plague and the virus has not killed 75,000 people
Verdict: based on the evidence, aap factcheck found the instagram post to be false. while the who has declared the 2019 coronavirus outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern, it has not deemed the outbreak as a "plague". also the number of infections and deaths globally are far below the numbers claimed in the post. although the instagram user labelled the claim in their first upload with "cap", potentially indicating the post was false, many users appear unaware the post contains false information.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-02-04T00:00:00