The Infodemic: Reports About India COVID Crisis Aren't 'UK Government Ploy to Keep People Terrified'

April 30, 2021 4:21 PM

Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here.

Claim: Reports about the COVID-19 outbreak in India are "a UK government ploy to keep people terrified."

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: Reuters

Circulating on social media: Claim that San Francisco had "twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths" in 2020.

Verdict: True

Read the full story at: PolitiFact

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If the world doesn’t stop the region’s surging caseload, it could cost us all that we’ve done to fight the pandemic, one health official said.
-- New York Times, April 29

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