Inaccurate: PCR test swab length “twice as long as for the flu” makes testing painful
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Japan Fact-checks: Uncertain information spread by the mass media
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Misleading：The novel coronavirus has an aversion for high temperatures, high humidity and ultraviolet rays
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Japan Fact-checks: The importance of data-driven verification
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Inaccurate: Countries with more PCR tests have more deaths
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Japan Fact-checks: You can never be too prepared? The nature of recent hoaxes
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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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Japan Fact-checks: Fabricated disinformation attributed to Japan
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
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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