Alongside the growing COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant lockdown, much debate is happening around its positive impacts to the environment as a result of minimized human activity in many parts of the world. While many posts are circulating on social media about the positive impacts to the environment, some fact checks have debunked many such […]
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, audiences are bombarded with all forms of news and information around the virus. The information available varies from news bulletins to opinion pieces and expert analyses on the topic, amidst many other fake news posts. It is only fair that the public try to make […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic that was first discovered during the latter part of 2019 has reached unimaginable proportions with over 2 million people affected around the world as per the latest reports. With this many people infected and many countries and regions experiencing some form of a lockdown, a sense of panic and fear has engulfed […]
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Italy has been the hardest hit by COVID19 as the death toll continue to increase and has now surpassed China with more than 5000 deaths and over 50,000 diagnosed with the disease as per the latest reports by the WHO. Italian officials have been also at the center of attraction on how they are dealing […]
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During March 2020, at a time when lockdown measures were being strictly imposed in Sri Lanka due to COVID-19, certain communities had not realized the real meaning of social distancing, with many arranging small functions often associated with alcoholic beverages, with friends and family circles. Social Media Claims: Against this backdrop, we noticed social media […]
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With the amount of misinformation related to COVID-19 on the rise governments around the world and health officials have been continuously highlighting the importance of following verified sources for latest updates. Since World Health Organization is the authorized body to comment officially on the status of the COVID-19, public have been closely following the guidelines […]
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With World Health Organization declaring COVID19 a pandemic situation with worldwide spread of the disease, social media platforms have been flooded with dubious claims that prevents or cures the coronavirus infection. Our fact checks revealed almost all claims are not scientifically proven, while some of these remedies might have symptomatic improvement for COVID19. In this […]
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As the epicentreof the COVID-19 outbreak moved from China to Europe in the past few weeks and the number of patients testing positive for the virus increased around the world. This prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the situation a pandemic, urging the public not to fall prey for false statements in a […]
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As China gradually shows signs of recovery from the deadly COVID19 epidemic, patients testing positive for the deadly virus has escalated in other parts of the world, prompting the World Health Organization to declare the situation a “pandemic.” Governments around the world have requested public to not to fall for misinformation and follow only verified […]
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It has been 6 weeks since the lockdown of Wuhan, the epicenter of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), and as per the latest published information, number of reported cases were over 90,000 with almost 3200 deaths. While the rate of infection has normalized in China to a certain extent, the latest trends indicate worldwide threat of spread […]
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