False: Tokyo infection figures can’t exceed 300 people per day due to the use of fax machines
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CATEGORY COVID-19 Fact-checks
Cross-border misinformation: President of Ghana reveals a Covid-19 conspiracy
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False: WHO changes course; No need to quarantine infected people
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Inaccurate: Japanese government to subsidize half of travel expenses for foreign tourists
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Misleading: Finance Minister Taro Aso’s: Japan’s “fewer deaths than the West are due to the difference in the social standards”
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False: PCR test also detects common cold viruses
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False: A nurse who tested positive for the new coronavirus is at the source of a massive hospital-associated infection (HAI) outbreak
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Inaccurate: PCR test swab length “twice as long as for the flu” makes testing painful
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Misleading：The novel coronavirus has an aversion for high temperatures, high humidity and ultraviolet rays
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Inaccurate: Countries with more PCR tests have more deaths
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