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31 Oct 2020, 02:05 GMT+10
Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.
Daily Debunk
Claim: Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque claimed that the Philippines has the "best" COVID-19 testing policy in Asia and "probably in the whole world."
Verdict: False
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Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: "A video shared on Twitter claims to show President Uhuru Kenyatta dancing in a crowd without a face mask in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Verdict: False
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Factual Reads on Coronavirus
The race to make COVID antibody therapies cheaper and more potent
Injections of antibodies might prevent mild COVID-19 from becoming severe, but the treatments are expensive and difficult to make.
-- Nature, October 28
Confronting Misinformation
How to protect society from fear, lies and division.
-- Scientific American, November 1 issue
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