Claim: Desperation for coronavirus vaccine is evident from this viral post with a video of United States President Donald Trump claiming that the "COVID-19 vaccine is ready and will be launched by the pharmaceutical giant Roche by next Sunday." The message also confirms that millions of doses are ready from it !!!
Fact-check: 100 fake COVID-19 WhatsApp forwards that we almost believed - First Check
Verdict: roche in a press release announced that fda has issued an emergency use authorisation  for the cobas® sars-cov-2 test. it says this "first commercial test for sars-cov-2 will enable expedited coronavirus testing to meet urgent medical needs". the company had just thanked fda for approval for coronavirus tests and not the vaccine, as claimed in the fake viral message.
Organisation: First Check
Author: Deepika Khurana
Date published: 2020-06-12T00:13:42