AFP Fact Check: Novel coronavirus breeds global false claims - News Summed Up

AFP Fact Check: Novel coronavirus breeds global false claims


AFP was able to confirm the video was in fact captured at the Langowan market in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. This is false; Chinese authorities have made no such projection. But these were in fact patents registered in an effort to combat different strains of coronavirus, for example by developing vaccines. - False alarm in France -In France, several social media posts have circulated with claims that people had been contaminated with the novel coronavirus in the departments of Val d'Oise, Savoie, Lot-et-Garonne and Pyrenees-Orientales. These false reports were accompanied by images made to look like they were screenshots from several French news sources -- including AFP.


Source: Bangkok Post January 28, 2020 17:26 UTC



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