Claim: A widely circulated Facebook post makes a series of claims about Italy "defeating" COVID-19 including that Italian authorities "discovered that it is not a virus, but a bacteria".
Fact-check: Italy did not find a treatment to defeat COVID-19 and did not say the disease is caused by bacteria
Verdict: false - the primary claims of the content are factually inaccurate.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-06-03T00:00:00