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Misleading: The novel coronavirus has an aversion for high temperatures, high humidity and ultraviol...

Professor Harue Okada of Hakuo University said on TV Asahi's popular TV program "Morning Show," on May 19, 2010 that the new coronavirus is sensitive to high t...

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Inaccurate: Countries with more PCR tests have more deaths

At a press conference on May 4, Dr. Shigeru Omi, deputy chairman of the Japanese government expert panel on the Covid-19 response said that while the number of ...

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False: “Tokyo’s hospitals overwhelmed with bed utilization at 91% on May 11” though the numbers actu...

NHK reported on May 11 that hospitals in Tokyo were still overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients with hospital utilization rate at 91%. Reuters and other news agenc...

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Fabrication: Nobel laureate Dr. Honjo says “this virus is Chinese-made”

Fabricated information claiming that Distinguished Professor of Kyoto University and awardee of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Tasuku Honjo has ...

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Inaccurate: The US embassy in Japan warns “a collapse of the Japanese health care system is close at...

Claims that the U.S. embassy in Japan warned in a ‘Health Alert’ tweet on April 3rd of a collapse of the Japanese health care system in the near future was spre...

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Fact-checking( 6 )

Misleading: The novel coronavirus has an aversion for high temperatures, high humidity and ultraviol...

Inaccurate: Countries with more PCR tests have more deaths

False: “Tokyo’s hospitals overwhelmed with bed utilization at 91% on May 11” though the numbers actu...

Fabrication: Nobel laureate Dr. Honjo says “this virus is Chinese-made”

Inaccurate: The US embassy in Japan warns “a collapse of the Japanese health care system is close at...