This is false; coronaviruses affecting cattle or canines differ from the new virus pressure affecting humans, for which no vaccine exists. A message shared on WhatsApp and Facebook claims that 15 coronavirus cases have been linked to Burnaby’s Metrotown mall, within the western Canadian province of British Columbia. This is fake; provincial health officials and the mall administrator told AFP that no cases are connected to the mall so far. A meme shared on Facebook and Twitter claims to point out an image of absolutely stocked shelves of bathroom paper, purportedly in the course of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, above one other of barren cabinets through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The submit is deceptive; the picture of the stocked shelves is a screenshot from US information footage shot this year, not in 2009. As the US authorities moved to approve a $2 trillion stimulus package to address the influence of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a brief block of textual content outlining Canada’s alleged response to the outbreak flourished on social media.

While the toll-free quantity is correct, the knowledge that follows is fake, in accordance with well being authorities. Facebook posts declare that the novel coronavirus isn't a new illness, exhibiting pictures of vials of coronavirus vaccines for animals as proof.

Posts shared thousands of times on Facebook declare to offer an emergency food stamp hotline. This is false; the cellphone quantity is not for the US Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for food stamps, and as a substitute is a disconnected quantity previously belonging to rapper Mike Jones. Video of police detaining folks during the novel coronavirus lockdown in Spain? No, this video has circulated in stories about an anti-government protest in Azerbaijan in 2019.

This is fake; Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City didn't concern the letter, based on its employees. A recall notice supposedly issued by retailer Costco for bathtub tissue contaminated by the novel coronavirus has been shared hundreds of occasions on Facebook in Canada. The notice just isn't authentic, based on a statement from the wholesaler, and the model of bath tissue in question just isn't listed on official recall web sites. Graphics displaying Department of Health logos with the COVID-19 hotline quantity for South Africa have been shared thousands of occasions on social media.