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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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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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