False: WHO changes course; No need to quarantine infected people
A twitter post purportedly showing that the WHO said that coronavirus patients require neither quarantine nor social distancing because “It cannot even transmit...
Inaccurate: Japanese government to subsidize half of travel expenses for foreign tourists
News that the Japanese government will dip into its supplementary budget to launch a "Go To Travel Campaign" in the hope of attracting tourists back to the depr...
Misleading: Finance Minister Taro Aso’s: Japan’s “fewer deaths than the West are due to the differen...
Minister of Finance Taro Aso told parliament on June 4 that Japan has fewer COVID-19 deaths than other countries because Japanese people have higher moral stand...
False: Japan’ s Supreme Court rules ‘welfare for foreigners illegal’
A twitter post of a screenshot of a NHK’s news video story with the captions reading that the Supreme Court judged for the first time that “foreigners are not c...
Fabrication: CNN doctored a photo of a man who fired shots into Black Lives Matter protests to make ...
A twitter post purportedly showing how CNN in the U.S. had doctored a photo of a man who fired a gun (into Black Lives Matter protests) to make it look as if he...
False: PCR test also detects common cold viruses
Kunihiko Takeda, a professor at Chubu University, said on YouTube: “PCR test is pointless as a test to detect Covid-19 as the PCR test detects not only the ‘Wuh...
False: A nurse who tested positive for the new coronavirus is at the source of a massive hospital-as...
According to Chinese mini-blog Weibo, which quoted a report by Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi around the end of April, 120 people were infected in two days in a ...