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A video has been seen tens of thousands of instances in multiple Facebook posts which claim it exhibits a man wiping his sweat on the buttons of a lift in a residential block in Hong Kong. The declare is false; the footage has circulated in media stories about an incident in Thailand. A claim that police in Thailand can concern fines to anybody who doesn't wear a face mask in public in the course of the novel coronavirus pandemic has been shared repeatedly on Facebook, Twitter and Line Messenger. The claim is fake; Thai authorized consultants advised AFP there is no legislation in the nation that allows police to nice people for not sporting face masks; Thai police issued a number of statements calling the claims “pretend news”.

The scuffle that occurred on the occasion was sparked over fears that the testing website would make the village extra vulnerable to infections, they said. A Facebook publish shared hundreds of times claims seven children died in Senegal after being given a COVID-19 vaccine. This is fake; scientists are nonetheless working to discover a vaccine and Senegal’s well being ministry told AFP the incident never occurred. The video within the publish actually exhibits people gathering after they heard rumours that a door-to-door salesman was vaccinating locals. Dozens of posts shared tons of of times on Facebook and WhatsApp declare that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa advised foreigners to go away the nation to minimise the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Three photographs have been shared in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim they show an anti-authorities protest in the Philippines staged throughout a lockdown applied to contain the unfold of the coronavirus. The declare is fake; the pictures circulated on-line at least one month earlier than the Philippine government imposed a lockdown on its main island as a result of coronavirus pandemic.

A video has been viewed hundreds of instances on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim it shows people rioting and looting shops in England through the coronavirus lockdown. The declare is fake; the video has circulated online since August 2011 about riots within the British capital of London. A declare has been shared on Facebook and a number of other Sri Lankan news websites that Muslims at a mosque in Sri Lanka reacted violently after authorities advised them their gathering was in violation of the country's novel coronavirus curfew. The declare is misleading; police and public well being officials mentioned that locals were in fact requested to assemble at the mosque to receive exams to detect COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

The claim is fake; he has made no such announcement and the Department of Home Affairs refuted the declare. A claim has been shared tens of thousands of occasions on Facebook that Malaysia has started distributing month-to-month compensation of eight,000 Thai baht to its residents and has waived their electrical energy bills as a part of a six-month relief package deal during the novel coronavirus disaster. The declare is misleading; as of April 2020, Malaysia’s coronavirus relief measures provided one-off funds as part of a means-examined financial help package; the measures included subsidised electricity bills for six months however didn't waive them altogether.

A post has been shared multiple occasions on Facebook in March 2020 that claims China and Japan are “free” of the novel coronavirus, which causes the illness COVID-19. The declare is false; data from the World Health Organization reveals new circumstances continue to be reported in each nations. A photo of a person and girl embracing has been shared tons of of occasions on Facebook and Twitter alongside a declare that it exhibits two Italian medical doctors who died of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, after contracting the illness from the patients they treated.

The claim is false; that is an Associated Press picture of a pair kissing at an airport in Barcelona, Spain. A video of meals packets deposited on a avenue has been viewed hundreds of thousands of occasions on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim it shows food donations for folks in Turkey throughout a novel coronavirus lockdown. The claim is fake; the video shows donations for victims of a lethal earthquake that struck jap Turkey in January 2020, nearly two months before Turkey recorded its first case of the novel coronavirus, which causes the illness COVID-19. Facebook posts shared thousands of times characteristic a video of US officials speaking to reporters, with captions claiming they are announcing the arrest of a Chinese scientist who “created” the new coronavirus. However, the footage has nothing to do with COVID-19 and scientists have refuted allegations the virus was intentionally created.