DISINFO: There is no coronavirus pandemic, it's fake
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: svpressa.ru (archived)*
  • Date of publication: April 01, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 191
  • Countries / regions discussed: US
Tags:
coronavirus United Nations WHO

DISINFO: There is no coronavirus pandemic, it's fake

SUMMARY

This “fake pandemic” is imposed on almost every country of the 193 UN member states. It is “fake,” because when a pandemic was announced, outside of China, a population of 6.4 billion people had only 150 cases of infection.

RESPONSE

Part of a wide and orchestrated disinformation campaign about the coronavirus. The coronavirus outbreak was labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the 11th of March 2020.

According to the World Health Organisation, as of 7th of April, there are more than 1,200,000 confirmed cases and there had been more than 72,000 deaths. The World Health Organisation has concluded that the virus first appeared in the Chinese province of Hubei. The novel coronavirus "2019-nCoV” comes from a family of viruses originating in animals that includes others such as SARS and MERS.

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