Claim: Italian health authorities recently reduced the country's official COVID-19 death toll by 97 per cent.
Fact-check: Claims of a drastically reduced COVID-19 toll are a real Italian job
Verdict: false. the figure is based on a misinterpretation of italian data that highlighted comorbidities among fatal covid-19 cases. the country's death toll is unchanged.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2021-11-24T00:00:00