False: “Tokyo’s hospitals overwhelmed with bed utilization at 91% on May 11” though the numbers actually ended being under 50%
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CATEGORY COVID-19 Fact-checks
False: “A survey by LINE concludes Japan has 10 times more infected people than officially announced” spreading across China
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False: A Taiwanese newspaper reports “73 Japanese police officers contracted COVID-19 after handling infected corpses”
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False: Al Jazeera reports “deer on the street of Tokyo amid the lockdown”
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Fabrication: Nobel laureate Dr. Honjo says “this virus is Chinese-made”
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Inaccurate: The US embassy in Japan warns “a collapse of the Japanese health care system is close at hand”
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False: the Japanese state of emergency declaration “gives governors the power to implement mandatory lockdowns”
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Fabrication: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe staged his visit to survivors of a typhoon”
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Fabrication: COVID-19 tweet pretending to be Defense Minister Kono spreads in Taiwan
Fact-checked by Taiwan Fact-check Center
