This is fact versus fiction.

I'm arches.

And on the show with me today is Checchi, our health reporter.

And today we're gonna discuss Corona virus and all the misinformation around it.

Now, as you know, it's been more than a month that the panic had kind of spread around the world, you know, and all the cases day by day, received a number of cases piling up Number of death toll also piling up cars that you're gonna give us an update on the current debt toll is 910 908 in mainland China, while one each and Hong Kong and Philippines OK on how many people have been about 40,500 more are infected along with this.

One of the key points, if you notice, is that there is a cruise called Diamond Cruises sparked off Tokyo.

It has won 36 positive cases off off Corona virus because on January 25 1 80 year old man from Hong Kong got off the cruise and you tested positive Thio one.

Yes.

Okay.

Like they're all under quarantine.

It's a place there.

Okay, so these are the stats right now.

There are also large number of recoveries, actually a lot more than the debt.

So about 3600 Exactly.

So you know, I was not close.

Let's hope eso in all of this W h o had recently announced that it's going to, you know, like fight this info endemic.

You know, it seems to be bigger than the pandemic that's happening and photo make.

Basically, they referenced all the misinformation that's spreading in the wake of this outbreak.

Andi helping them in this fight all the tech companies.

Facebook is also recently pledged to take down miss Information related to Colonel Mayer.

So it's a very serious situation, you know, on in all of this, you know, you still have people sharing this information.

For example.

Ah, filmmaker Vic Omni Hotel recently shared a mean that's been getting popular day by day.

This mean says Redcoats Corona virus.

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Now, Nirvana is known to have certain medical properties being legalized in a lot of countries.

Sultan under help fight cancer.

But what about the corona wires?

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So as you all you mentioned irritably what you has come up with a lot of steps.

The tablet is also specify that there is no specific treatment or cure for the cardinal itis.

Yet there is ambergris towards going on.

They were for him coming on tomorrow and day after that.

The several evident to have in Copenhagen very discussing solutions.

And this is Oh, Mim, actually, which we found out in a divorce.

Um, it's stored in a section of a mean generating website.

It's dank Means and Jeff section okay?

And so we tried out one of our own as well, saying fake fact checking yours grow now by this it is false information off course, but then it also spreads a lot of misinformation.

Yeah, so, again, the vacant hotel, he has been fact check before by boom, but he doesn't seem to stop spreading thinking.

Yeah, I mean, people like him may think that, you know, this is just done in jest, but look at the number of retweets, like more than 2.5000 likes more than 800 retweets on.

You know, this is kind of dangerous because as a w just said, you know, this is a precarious situation that we have to contain the spread of Mr Misinformation.

You'd have people smoking with thinking they're gonna cure Corona virus.

That could happen, you know.

So moving on, we have another story on.

But this one's quite gloomy, is actually like there's these.

There's a website that's kind of going around, spreading some sort of from news and we received in our What's up help line number on.

According to this story, China has demanded approval to kill more than 20,000 coronavirus patients toe of work for the spread of the virus.

Now, that's quite I mean more than this dystopian.

You know, this is scary.

20,000 people dead, I mean, and this claim was shared by multiple network Ishwar on Twitter.

You know, anything that comes out of multiple occasions had you need to be fact checked like this is no joke.

So So we didn't do a fact what we did, we did, and we found that the website in question a b d c dot com is known the peddle misinformation and fake news, its other name, a city news.

And normally they don't give proper by lines as to whose it in the story there are local correspondents.

I see.

So looking into that story, we found that there is no factual information or evidence supporting this claim.

And since it's why everywhere globally or even Snopes and lead stories or random fact checks on our factory while using a Web site called Who Is We Found that this Web site is registered in Guangdong, China, but it's information is more us and check the articles that the door is more us and you can find us to the U.

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Audience.

Okay, so there's no common ground on while snow in the snobs fact check.

They found that or this is not even vets listed on the Supreme Court website of People's Republic of China.

So if there was something like this, you should at least be on that website.

Yeah, there's no nothing gets past Chinese government.

You can't have selected website without government approval, So definitely dubious website fake.

You could call it because the information coming out is quite dangerous.

So anything from a b d c dot com, you know, flag it as fake news and maybe share it with us on our help line.

What's up?

Help line.

So we can check it on anything related to the coronavirus, you know, I mean, I've been hearing a lot of stories as well.

Like recently some someone told me that there's an entire building that was closed that was kind of shut down because there were patients related to like coronavirus patients inside on the entire building was shut down by the government and left to die in everyone's left with that, which doesn't sound has, really you know, you had a reader recently off a couple of buildings, like off video off people screaming from their buildings, saying that all they have all been locked inside.

That wasn't true either.

It was in memory of Dr Lee when Liang would well after he predicted this outbreak back in December and use the rope that he is.

The vessel, though, who broke the story like gave told everybody that this thing is going on.

Fortunately, he got infected himself on video and 77 exactly, and he was asked not to spread rumors and misinformation even though he was actually giving on statistics.

So yeah, so one was actually the windows, the shouting and everything was active in memory off him to commemorate his lost because he was trying to save people isn't exactly so.

Please don't share these kind of misinformation and just share it with us on our top help line if you're so so inclined to thank you for watching and have a good day.