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Misleading: The Omicron variant makes vaccines 40 percent less effective.
Health-Covid

Misleading: The Omicron variant makes vaccines 40 percent less effective.
Partly_True: You canget COVID-19 if you wash your hands after touching an infected surface.
Health-Covid

Partly_True: You canget COVID-19 if you wash your hands after touching an infected surface.
False: 85 percent of people who wear masks catch COVID-19.
Health-Covid

False: 85 percent of people who wear masks catch COVID-19.
False: You can only get COVID-19 if you sit next to an infected person.
Health-Covid

False: You can only get COVID-19 if you sit next to an infected person.
Partly_True: Aaditya Thackeray launched a company that makes devices that can detect COVID-19 from your voice.
Health-Covid Politics-People Tech-Business

Partly_True: Aaditya Thackeray launched a company that makes devices that can detect COVID-19 from your voice.
True: Pranab Mukherjee says he has tested positive for Covid-19.
Health-Covid Politics-People

True: Pranab Mukherjee says he has tested positive for Covid-19.
Misleading: In Scotland, heart disorders have risen by 118 percent and excess deaths by 40 percent in young adults since being given the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: In Scotland, heart disorders have risen by 118 percent and excess deaths by 40 percent in young adults since being given the COVID-19 vaccine.
True: Russia has sought India's help to carry out the phase 3 trials of the Sputnik vaccine for COVID-19.
Economics-Business Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

True: Russia has sought India's help to carry out the phase 3 trials of the Sputnik vaccine for COVID-19.
True: There are around 65 containment zones in Hyderabad as on August 12, 2020.
Health-Covid

True: There are around 65 containment zones in Hyderabad as on August 12, 2020.
False: Researchers in Medina have found a successful COVID-19 treatment.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: Researchers in Medina have found a successful COVID-19 treatment.
Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines are causing myocarditis and pericarditis, the U.K. Health Security Agency says.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccines are causing myocarditis and pericarditis, the U.K. Health Security Agency says.
False: BioNTech's CEO refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine over safety concerns.
Economics-General Health-Covid

False: BioNTech's CEO refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine over safety concerns.
False: Since March 2020, 9 children have died from COVID-19 in the U.K.
Health-Covid Health-Covid

False: Since March 2020, 9 children have died from COVID-19 in the U.K.
False: The syringe used to give the booster jab to PM Boris Johnson was covered with a cap.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Politics-People

False: The syringe used to give the booster jab to PM Boris Johnson was covered with a cap.
Misleading: COVID-19 vaccine related deaths in Taiwan are higher than those due to the virus.
Health-Covid

Misleading: COVID-19 vaccine related deaths in Taiwan are higher than those due to the virus.
False: Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has a mortality rate of nearly 6 percent.
Health-Covid Health-Pharma Health-Vaccines

False: Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine has a mortality rate of nearly 6 percent.
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