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Daily Debunk
Claim: Havan -- the ritual burning of a cow dung cake -- can keep a house sanitized for 12 hours.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: The Quint
Social Media Disinfo
Circulating on social media: A clip of a woman convulsing on the ground alongside the claim that she is suffering from side effects after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.
Verdict: False
Read the full story at: AFP Fact Check
Factual Reads on Coronavirus
Five-Day Course of Oral Antiviral Appears to Stop SARS-CoV-2 in Its Tracks
A single pill of the investigational drug molnupiravir taken twice a day for 5 days eliminated SARS-CoV-2 from the nasopharynx of 49 participants.
-- Medscape, March 8
