DISINFO: Bill Gates and other globalists use the corona pandemic to implant microchips in the whole of humanity

This is a recurring conspiracy theory on the coronavirus mainly popularised by anti-vaxxers. Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist, who is now the central figure of conspiracy theories, has mentioned health certificates in a discussion but this has nothing to do with microchips. Later, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told Reuters that "the reference to ‘digital certificates’ relates to efforts to create an open-source digital platform with the goal of expanding access to safe, home-based testing." Digital certificates are used to send encrypted information over the internet, as in the common case of electronic signatures which are used to verify identity. They were officially defined by what is now called the Telecommunication Standardisation Sector in 1988 and have always been virtual, not physical. The claim that Bill Gates has a link with the ”creation” of coronavirus is presumably concocted because the “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” finances some research projects of the Pirbright Institute, a centre of excellence in research and surveillance of virus diseases of farm animals and viruses that spread from animals to humans, based in the UK. On 24 January 2020, the Pirbright institute posted a press release explaining that the organisation has no link with COVID-19.