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1,101 | We have recorded 85 close contacts from the charter flight from Christchurch to Auckland. Of those 29 have been tested. These include the people closest to the person on the flight. 28 have returned a negative result. | real |
1,102 | We should have a rudimentary website and more sustainable process going in the next day or so thanks to dozens of volunteers. We've hit pause on adding new people to the effort but we will start bringing more in as we smooth the workflows and have easier ways to plug in. | real |
1,103 | ???Not one politician has died from the virus.??� | fake |
1,104 | To date our system has recorded 80 of those close contacts as having returned a negative test result. There have been 195 casual contacts identified from the gym classes – of which 91 have been tested and returned a negative result. | real |
1,105 | RT @VaccineEpi: WHO SAGE COVID-19 vaccine recommendations are taking shape. If you're modeller/economist tackling our key Qs & haven't resp… | real |
1,106 | With today’s six new cases and one additional recovered case our total number of active cases is 123. Of those 43 are imported cases in MIQ facilities and 80 are community cases. | real |
1,107 | • Today we have recorded 97% of all confirmed and probable cases as having recovered from COVID-19 an increase of three on yesterday for a total of 1455. • There are no additional deaths to report. | real |
1,108 | Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo has said China manufactured coronavirus and he once worked at the Wuhan lab which later produced it. | fake |
1,109 | One new case of #COVID19 has been confirmed in Oyo state Nigeria As at 08:05 am on the 22nd of March there are 26 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria Of the 26 confirmed cases 2 have been discharged with no death https://t.co/Usk6KoKgOy | real |
1,110 | Actors" applauded Macron when he visited the suburban city of Pantin near Paris.
A video of a man in front of the Pacaembu Stadium in São Paulo where a field hospital for COVID-19 patients was built. He claims that since there's no movement in the entrance no one waiting to get in there's no one inside either.
The dean of the College of Biologists of Euskadi states that there are a lot of PCR false positives and asymptomatic don't spread coronavirus.
In Nagpur's Medical Hospital the kidney of the patient was removed and the excuse was made that the patient had corona.
With the novel coronavirus sending the US economy into freefall posts that list phone numbers for job seekers to call and find work have been shared thousands of times on Facebook and Instagram.
People in Italy are threw away their money after they lost their family members to coronavirus.
COVID-19 is human-made and an American biological weapon
“Fish tank additive may treat coronavirus.”
“Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.”
There has been no death due to COVID-19 in Israel as they mix lemon and baking soda in their tea. This combination kills coronavirus.
A alleged tweet from General Heleno Minister of Institutional Security (sort of like Ministry for the Interior) in Brazil. It says COVID-19 is not strong since he himself and president Jair Bolsonaro had it and recovered easily. Bolsonaro always denied having COVID-19.
A post says that Donald Trump has said on March 17th that people who never died before are dying now.
There is no home vaccination against coronavirus in Cuba.
Picture shows clothes of those who have died of coronavirus in China. Beijing is now shipping these clothes to Africa.
An American CEO drew the Indian map comparing the population of each Indian state to that of countries across the world highlighting how India is indirectly handling the COVID-19 crisis of so many countries.
A picture showing many hospital beds with patients on it concentrated in very small area. The caption states that this is how public health was like in Brazil in 2016 but the media never talked about it.
President Barack Obama “waited six months to call swine flu an emergency after thousands died.”
The men of India's railway minister demanding money from helpless workers for walking on the tracks.
These are doctors in Tijuana taking a nap on the floor of a hospital.
Photo of a mannequin being wheeled into a hospital shows the COVID-19 coverup.
Four people have died in Zanzibar after handling a chicken infected with COVID-19.
Post says no one has died from the coronavirus in the United States.
Video showing a Muslim man throwing notes to spread coronavirus
Industrialist Ratan Tata's view on economic downfall due to COVID-19.
If you can hold your breath for 10 seconds then you don't have fibrosis and therefore no infection. Picture of text in English describing the method.
“Hydroxychloroquine cures this ‘virus.’ It just so happens this is the treatment used for radiation sickness!!”
Senegalese doctor says chloroquine is the secret for a very low number of deaths by COVID-19 in Senegal.
Medical report of Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía de Cartagena (Murcia) from a person with possible coronavirus.
The NBA is asking President Donald Trump to “resign or we’ll never play again.”
Image of a critically ill COVID-19 infected woman hugging her child for the last time before her death
“Every election year has a disease” -- SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.
Details of three coronavirus positive cases reported in Kothapet (Hyderabad India).
All social media group admins are requested to close their groups for two days.
João Doria governor of São Paulo caught COVID-19 while isolated. He also took a Chinese vaccine that is being tested in Brazil
An Instagram post claims Microsoft founder Bill Gates said up to 700000 people could die from a COVID-19 vaccine.
Priyanka Gandhi has started buses to help migrants travel during the COVID-19 lockdown.
A claim was made that India found a cure to coronavirus
Saddam Hussein talked about coronavirus to his cabinet and army in the nineties. He said that America has threatened him to spread this virus if he doesn't follow their command.
A photo has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim it shows a nurse apologising to a Muslim man after she blamed the Muslim community for spreading COVID-19 in India. The posts claim the nurse was forced to apologise by a local politician.
A document that talks about the benefits of wine to prevent coronavirus.
Pregnant women must undergo a caesarean section during the pandemic.
“All U.S. citizens are entitled to $700 USD per week to stay at home to avoid the spread of COVID-19 novel coronavirus starting 3/17/20.”
A picture with a quote attributed to Bill Gates stating: "The vaccine won't be safe but let's get it out quickly anyway and worry about the consequences later | fake |
1,111 | Our daily update is published. We’ve now tracked ~4.16 million tests up 152k from yesterday a bit over the April average. The testing plateau continues. Note that we can only track tests that a state reports. For details see: https://t.co/PZrmH4bl5Y https://t.co/Gr1d3oIpCO | real |
1,112 | @kmedved One wrinkle to this data: one way we think we’d know if we were missing lots of data is if the positive rate starts to go up. Also worth noting: What you see is an upper bound on positive rate. | real |
1,113 | Democratic primary candidates find common ground in being high risk for coronavirus https://t.co/HFGSlevlBd https://t.co/Zt9NGWzKci | fake |
1,114 | , Nicolás Maduro warned that the COVID-19 disease might be a "biological weapon" created against China and the rest of the world | fake |
1,115 | Text in Lithuanian excerpted from a letter claims WHO measures are a genocide and pandemic isn't real. | fake |
1,116 | COVID-19 Update There are nine new cases of COVID-19 to report in New Zealand today – eight confirmed cases and one probable case. The total number of active cases in New Zealand is 123 of which 19 are imported cases from managed isolation facilities. https://t.co/E7jLtTk8AD | real |
1,117 | RT @PolitiFactNC: NC Gov. Roy Cooper said some COVID-19 patients in other states died because they had trouble getting a ventilator or ICU… | fake |
1,118 | #CoronaVirusUpdates: State-wise details of Total Confirmed #COVID19 cases (till 15 September 2020 8 AM) ➡️States with 1-15000 confirmed cases ➡️States with 15001-112000 confirmed cases ➡️States with 112000+ confirmed cases ➡️Total no. of confirmed cases so far https://t.co/dBYcMLuxVc | real |
1,119 | Images show Indonesian doctor Dr Hadio Ali who died due to COVID-19. | fake |
1,120 | #IndiaFightsCorona India has one of the lowest global #COVID19 fatality rates: @drharshvardhan. Dr. Vinod Paul Member (Health) @NITIAayog apprises GoM on Vaccine Development in India. | real |
1,121 | Latest updates from the Director-General Health and the Police Commissioner • There are no new cases of COVID-19 to report today • This means New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable cases is 1499 of which 1149 are confirmed cases of COVID-19 https://t.co/LrsW6Dshxw | real |
1,122 | Did Donald Trump attempt to steal a COVID-19 vaccine from a German company and refuse testing kits from WHO? | fake |
1,123 | Coronavirus - Patient Zero identified https://t.co/nmFnPpztai #santa #coronavirus #patientzero | fake |
1,124 | Yesterday our laboratories completed 2054 tests bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 294048. | real |
1,125 | Says President Donald Trump is ???morbidly obese.??� | fake |
1,126 | There are no new recovered cases to report so there continue to be 23 active cases all in managed isolation facilities. None of those people are receiving hospital-level care. Our number of confirmed cases remains at 1219. | real |
1,127 | The COVID-19 pandemic was caused by the 5G network. All influenza pandemics are caused by the "electrification" of the earth. | fake |
1,128 | Another implication of that fact: there is a lot of headroom left for the outbreak to grow. We've locked in lots of transmission already as the data we see here lags by 1-3 weeks from the time of infection. | real |
1,129 | Kabataan Representative in the Philippines Sarah Elago tested positive for coronavirus. | fake |
1,130 | Andrew Jenkinson says his wife's treatment has been paused because there is too much concentration on COVID-19. Get more on this story here: https://t.co/71a1eMv6AL https://t.co/unLobDNeO0 | real |
1,131 | Here's the good news today: Deaths fell under 400 for the first time since March 28. The 7-day average keeps falling slowly. https://t.co/MHCVHg36HV | real |
1,132 | Myanmar navy ships have started blocking and shooting Bengalis to stop them from entering the country with COVID-19. | fake |
1,133 | There are five recovered cases to report bringing our total number of active cases to 67. Of those 34 are imported cases in MIQ facilities and 33 are community cases. | real |
1,134 | It has been 71 days since the last case of COVID-19 was acquired locally from an unknown source. The total number of active cases is 24. Today’s new case is a woman in her 20s who arrived in New Zealand on 2 July from London via Doha and Sydney. | real |
1,135 | Acc to @ICMRDELHI #COVID19 testing strategy #asymptomatic direct & high-risk contacts of a confirmed #COVID case needs to be tested once between day 5-10 of coming into contact. Please contact District Surveillance Officer for #COVID_19 test of the family https://t.co/apqxPnDtQ2 https://t.co/N1kYjC8Kwh | real |
1,136 | More than 50000 people have returned to NZ since 26 March. Our Managed Isolation and Quarantine workers are working on the ground supporting our returnees and keeping our communities safe from COVID-19. @MBIEgovtnz https://t.co/0kPfVGUj2a | real |
1,137 | While it is too soon to assess the full impact of #COVID19 the report estimates that 130 million more people may face chronic hunger by the end of this year-@DrTedros https://t.co/M7Dmn1UMpe #SOFI2020 | real |
1,138 | Delays in getting #coronavirus test results back have been condemned as "appalling and negligent" by the chair of a body representing 4000 care homes in the UK https://t.co/24FOp5twxm | real |
1,139 | The latest CDC #COVIDView shows that influenza-like illness has declined nationally and is below baseline but remains elevated in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the U.S. See additional data: https://t.co/zP4VYlo0Pb https://t.co/r94CJVfPv5 | real |
1,140 | Note: The 15 deaths reported for Lagos State on 23rd July include previously unreported deaths. A breakdown of cases by state can be found via https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet #TakeResponsibility https://t.co/O9QsvFjRP5 | real |
1,141 | Pier Luigi Bersani | fake |
1,142 | The latest CDC #COVIDView report shows the percentage of deaths attributed to #COVID19 increased during the first 3 weeks of July but has since been on the decline: https://t.co/zP4VYlo0Pb. https://t.co/C9Eu0ARcJ3 | real |
1,143 | #IndiaFightsCorona: Major highlights of this week: More than 4.5 crore tests conducted so far. In the last 24 hrs more than 11 lakh samples have been tested. No. of recovered patients crossed 29 lakhs. #Unlock4 guidelines issued by @HMOIndia: Secretary @MoHFW_INDIA https://t.co/XGv83fdrLm | real |
1,144 | @ariellesophia It’s ... a very messy number especially in a time series. You could get a number that reflects today but it would be a mix of cumulative hospitalizations for some states and daily totals for others | real |
1,145 | “The index case of #COVID19 in #Nigeria was detected by an astute physician who was aware of our national case definition Our appeal to health care workers is to pay attention to patient’s travel history at this critical time” ~ @Chikwe_I on @channelstv https://t.co/ypKS7R77Vs | real |
1,146 | One article of "Le Parisien" French journal, published in 2013, reveals that COVID-19 was created by Chinese scientists. | fake |
1,147 | Olly Murs turns up at his local hospital with coronavirus but it turns out to be a hangover https://t.co/wseVdVM0Tp | fake |
1,148 | Current hospitalizations ticked up for the first time since early May today. That's largely because Alabama began reporting hospitalizations today which added 600 people to the known national total of ~31k. https://t.co/sDAOWT6QYg | real |
1,149 | Bruno Covas Mayor of São Paulo admited using chloroquine. He banned the drug in São Paulo. | fake |
1,150 | 87 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 33 in Lagos 18 in Borno 12 in Osun 9 in Katsina 4 in Kano 4 in Ekiti 3 in Edo 3 in Bauchi 1 in Imo As at 11:55 pm 25th April there are 1182 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Discharged: 222 Deaths: 35 https://t.co/La5xzZZe2z | real |
1,151 | Claim: Cow urine/dung could treat COVID-19: Assam legislator Haripriya https://t.co/6EIJ9P1TJv Fact: Such claims only add to misinformation/fear-mongering should fight disease scientifically: Anant Bhan health researcher. No preventive med/cure yet:WHO https://t.co/b3QfVqWv7U | fake |
1,152 | BREAKING: People who may have coronavirus will be required to self-isolate by law - with those who refuse facing fines of up to £10000 in England Read more here: https://t.co/eGvKgUY4J7 https://t.co/l2SUtRDpm9 | real |
1,153 | The overarching goal of the COVAX Facility is to ensure that all countries have access to vaccines at the same time and that priority is given to those most at risk including health workers older people and others at the highest risk-@DrTedros #COVID19 #UNGA #UN75 | real |
1,154 | Cardio workout during lockdown. #COVID19Pandemic https://t.co/pWByNaHEaZ | fake |
1,155 | Pakistan's PM Imran Khan tested COVID-19 positive. | fake |
1,156 | As the coronavirus has led to layoffs that stripped workers of their employer-sponsored health insurance top Republicans have actually encouraged people to sign up for plans available on the marketplaces set up by Obamacare. https://t.co/vnX5qxuPSo https://t.co/HcXjrRQ7A8 | fake |
1,157 | _A claim that India???s Ministry of Home Affairs has made it a ???punishable offense??� for citizens to publish posts on social media about the novel coronavirus has been shared repeatedly on Facebook Twitter and WhatsApp._ | fake |
1,158 | “Now as the virus is spreading once more we have had to act.” Health secretary Matt Hancock explains what local measures have been taken to try and stop the spread of #coronavirus. Follow live here: https://t.co/OWTJVEZyWH https://t.co/V84tSPhFP6 | real |
1,159 | No Response from the Government to the Nurses Staff in Civil Hospitals regards there Safety and Security, due to this all people of Telangana Suffering from it, if they have seasonal cold and cough or fever they are worried about to go for Hospital due to COVID 19. Telangana Government should think about the situation and solve the problem as soon as possible, #KCRFailedTelangana #BangaruTelangana | fake |
1,160 | We believe this data is central to our mission of recording state-level data that illuminates the severity of the outbreak and the intensity of responses to it. We expect that more and more states will be reporting these numbers soon. | real |
1,161 | #CoronaVirusUpdates #IndiaFightsCorona India touches a new peak of 719364 tests in a day taking cumulative testing to 24106535. With highest single day #COVID19 recoveries of 53879 Recovery Rate improves to 68.78% today. https://t.co/0DJNh0rtwn https://t.co/RvdweLD9tk | real |
1,162 | Hospitals in the United States get paid $750 for patients who die from the flu $17500 for COVID-19. | fake |
1,163 | #IndiaFightsCorona Recovery of more than 15 lakh has been made possible because of the policy of TESTING aggressively TRACKING comprehensively & TREATING efficiently. Better ambulance services focus on Standard of Care & use of non-invasive oxygen have given desired results. | real |
1,164 | 182 new cases of #COVID19; Lagos-111 FCT-16 Akwa Ibom-10 Oyo-8 Kaduna-6 Delta-6 Rivers-5 Ogun-4 Ebonyi-4 Kano-3 Plateau-2 Gombe-2 Kebbi-1 Kwara-2 Bauchi-1 Borno-1 8915 cases of #COVID19Nigeria Discharged: 2592 Deaths: 259 https://t.co/j23D8XfjOk | real |
1,165 | Photo of people in medical scrubs lying on the floor of an operating theatre shows some of the 200 Italian doctors who died of COVID-19 in one day on 3/23/20. | fake |
1,166 | Video shows 106 dead bodies in Delhi's Loknayak hospital in India. | fake |
1,167 | Jedward say they believe coronavirus is “starting to lose some of its power” https://t.co/peoKeGUrq8 | fake |
1,168 | We have not heard of a single police officer dying from COVID-19 across the world. | fake |
1,169 | The Nobel Prize winner for inventing the PCR method says it is not suitable for virus detection. | fake |
1,170 | The inventor of the PCR said his test did not work to detect viruses | fake |
1,171 | “As we mark 100 days since our first case of #COVID19Nigeria we remember over 300 people we‘ve lost to this outbreak. As we publish the daily Situation Reports we remember the humans & loved ones behind these numbers” ~ @Chikwe_I on @TVCconnect https://t.co/wGfUmgxjrp | real |
1,172 | The DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) politician Wang Shijian said Taiwan has more than 500 confirmed cases. | fake |
1,173 | Our total number of confirmed cases is 1271. We will report this to the WHO. | real |
1,174 | US labs can test for infection with #COVID19 using existing CDC test kits. For specific instructions on the newest protocol using CDC tests visit https://t.co/nmkWTkgrKC. https://t.co/GoNUB98qfB | real |
1,175 | “In the absence of a vaccine to prevent #COVID19 we have to focus on non-pharmaceutical interventions such as using face masks physical distancing and frequent hand washing” ~ @beeodune on @HitFMCalabar Join the ongoing conversation live👇🏽 https://t.co/gDgQRYTIAS https://t.co/h05Pzr2ZDx | real |
1,176 | Nobel Laureate Dr. Honjo has claimed COVID-19 virus to be man made in Wuhan Laboratory. | fake |
1,177 | Intrepid Investigative Reporting Reveals the Mystery Ingredients of Russki COVID-19 Vaccine https://t.co/Jbu68RbF2a #russia #coronavirus | fake |
1,178 | #IndiaFightsCorona India has substantively ramped up its testing infrastructure from one lab in Jan 2020 to 1370 labs today. Expanded diagnostic lab network & facilitation for easy testing across the country has given a boost and India has done more than 2 crore tests presently. https://t.co/dA7uc4vwFa | real |
1,179 | #IndiaFightsCorona Average daily recovered cases (week wise) have grown 4 times from 15000 in 1st week of July to 61700 in last week of August. https://t.co/qtmcgydkql | real |
1,180 | This brings our total number of cases to 36. 17 of these are linked to the latest community outbreak. Given that these cases are linked we are treating them as a cluster. At this stage we expect that there will be further cases. | real |
1,181 | WHO backs off asymptomatic coronavirus transmission claims. https://t.co/GgW0k8SQHE #coronavirus | real |
1,182 | “Counties with lax travel policies risk not only becoming the next hot spots of the disease but also acting as reservoirs for the virus that reignite infection in places that have tamped it down.” https://t.co/DPmlworYg0 #actnow #stayhome via @nytimes | real |
1,183 | RT @CDC_eHealth: CDC leads a new national genomics consortium to help coordinate SARS-CoV-2 sequencing in laboratories across the United St… | real |
1,184 | Relax, I developed my cooking skills during Lockdown 2020
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1,185 | If you’ve gotten flu shots in the past 10 years, you will test positive for the Wuhan strain of Covid-19. | fake |
1,186 | RT @MoHFW_INDIA: #IndiaFightsCorona @WHO has advised 140 tests per day per million population. With focussed Centre led efforts and effec… | real |
1,187 | Americans Attempting to Speak Truth to Power Hindered by State-Mandated Face Masks https://t.co/v7zFbr9Ud4 #covid19 #pandemic #freedom | fake |
1,188 | Prescription issued by Dr Raj Kamal Agarwal (Sir Ganga Ram hospital) for general public in case of any emergency, kindly save this prescription for any kind of emergency. | fake |
1,189 | The coronavirus transmission rate could now be as high as 1.4 in the UK official figures show https://t.co/cl7pkW7G87 | real |
1,190 | The Access to #COVID19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is a ground-breaking global collaboration to accelerate the development production and equitable access to COVID-19 diagnostics therapeutics and vaccines. 👉 https://t.co/Za3rsO8wtU https://t.co/Hx3je8i4WM | real |
1,191 | The leakage of different harmful viruses from the Laboratories, cannot be just accidental. There's more to it. World must be saved from China. We've already lost an entire year due to COVID-19, which originated from China. @WHO @narendramodi @PMOIndia https://t.co/NwNEq2Eyrr | fake |
1,192 | @KevinlyFather @TuckerCarlson If genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used. However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone. | fake |
1,193 | A message claimed that Angel Broking has gone bankrupt as oil prices went negative due to coronavirus lockdown around the world | fake |
1,194 | A video has been shared in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts in April 2020 alongside a claim it shows a temple in India that was turned into a COVID-19 quarantine centre by the state government. | fake |
1,195 | At present there are nine vaccines that are part of this dynamic portfolio; which is constantly being reviewed and optimised to ensure access to the best possible range of products.-@DrTedros #COVID19 | real |
1,196 | #COVID19 has affected every person in America in some way but it is not affecting everyone in the SAME way. Many racial and ethnic groups are overly affected by COVID-19. Read about CDC’s commitment to improve #HealthEquity. https://t.co/OVro238b8r https://t.co/2YhAC2v5Os | real |
1,197 | All the government’s coronavirus f**k-ups, a timeline https://t.co/ieKM99al3t | fake |
1,198 | NEBRASKA: "The most strict measures it turns out contain the virus faster than all other options. The virus could peak in the middle of April and disappear entirely by the middle of July according to the [Covid Act Now] model." Via @DailyNeb https://t.co/aj8a3arXiK | real |
1,199 | “#Convalescent plasma should not be considered standard of care for the treatment of patients with #COVID_19asserts @NIH. https://t.co/No97Ojo25t | real |
1,200 | 9-17-2020: In a clinical trial just released today from Havana, Cuba, good news for Cuba and China's antiviral injection, Heberon Alfa R (interferon alfa-2b), for treating early COVID-19. However, the control group was much sicker
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