The declare is misleading; the picture is actually an Associated Press photograph which shows victims of the December 26, 2004 tsunami in Thailand. The disaster, which grew to become often known as the Boxing Day tsunami, devastated greater than a dozen countries. A video shared thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram purports to point out hundreds of Nigerians scrambling for food amid a lockdown prompted by the novel coronavirus.

A graphic attributed to the state-run Philippine News Agency that includes a purported quote from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been shared in a number of posts on Facebook. The graphic claims that Duterte said the federal government has completed distributing money assistance to these affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. But the graphic has been doctored; it has been manipulated to include the purported Duterte quote and has been disowned by the PNA.

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. The declare is fake; the footage in fact reveals a lodging facility, which is adjacent to a temple, that was repurposed as a COVID-19 quarantine centre through the pandemic. A video has been seen hundreds of occasions on Facebook alongside a declare it shows Muslims within the US praying on a road during the coronavirus pandemic. The declare is fake; the footage has circulated online since February 2017; it corresponds with other footage in stories a couple of February 2017 protest in New York City against President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban. A picture has been shared 1000's of instances in multiple Facebook posts alongside a declare it exhibits our bodies of these killed by COVID-19.

However, the footage has been circulating on social media since no less than March 2019, months before the start of the pandemic. An image has been shared 1000's of occasions in a number of posts on Facebook alongside a claim it exhibits the bodies of an Indian family who committed suicide after working out of food through the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

A video of two Albanian feminine news anchors wearing revealing jackets on-air has been seen tens of thousands of occasions on Twitter alongside a claim that they dressed promiscuously in a bid to steer individuals to remain indoors in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The claim is false; the footage first aired on an Albanian TV channel years before the COVID-19 pandemic. A hoax claim has been shared lots of of occasions on Facebook and Twitter that certain viral outbreaks in the final a hundred years aligned with the introduction of recent telecommunications applied sciences.

A purported image of a day by day newspaper in Northern Ireland has been shared lots of of instances on Facebook and Twitter alongside a declare that it reveals a entrance page story about an Indian Muslim leader donating to the Indian Prime Minister’s novel coronavirus aid fund. The declare is fake; the picture has been doctored to incorporate the fabricated story; there are not any credible media reviews that the Muslim leader cited in the deceptive posts made any donation to the fund.

The declare is fake; the photo has circulated online since June 2019 in stories a few murder-suicide in India’s Karnataka state, months before COVID-19 was first detected within the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan in December 2019. The declare is false; the late woman's husband and local police advised AFP the woman's death was not the results of pandemic-associated violence.

A declare was shared repeatedly on Facebook, Twitter and Line Messenger in March 2020 that police in Thailand could concern fines to anybody who doesn't wear a face mask in public during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The claim is false; Thai legal specialists advised AFP there was no law within the country that allowed police to nice people for not wearing face masks as of March 2020; Thai police issued a number of statements calling the claims “fake news”.

A video has been viewed 1000's of times in a number of posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that it shows Pakistani safety forces apprehending three males after they escaped from a COVID-19 quarantine centre. The claim is misleading; the footage has circulated in stories about a joint coaching exercise by Pakistani safety forces and police outside a COVID-19 quarantine facility.

A video has been viewed hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter alongside a declare it shows Brazilians taking part in a candlelit vigil after India's Prime Minister known as for individuals to carry 'solidarity' vigils on April three, 2020 through the COVID-19 pandemic. The declare is false; the video was printed online in reviews about an event in Brazil earlier than Modi’s calls for solidarity.