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False: COVIPRI is a safe version of the Remdesivir injection.
Health-Covid Health-Pharma

False: COVIPRI is a safe version of the Remdesivir injection.
False: Adar Poonawalla was paid ₹ 25,000 crores in advance for Covishield.
Health-Covid Health-Pharma Health-Vaccines

False: Adar Poonawalla was paid ₹ 25,000 crores in advance for Covishield.
Misleading: People who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can receive free marijuana in the U.S.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines Politics-Policy

Misleading: People who are vaccinated against COVID-19 can receive free marijuana in the U.S.
Partly_True: An ayurvedic anti-viral drug named Clevira is used to treat mild and moderate cases of COVID-19.
Health-Covid

Partly_True: An ayurvedic anti-viral drug named Clevira is used to treat mild and moderate cases of COVID-19.
True: Women flouted COVID-19 rules during a religious gathering in Gujarat.
Health-Covid Human Rights-Religion

True: Women flouted COVID-19 rules during a religious gathering in Gujarat.
False: COVID-19 vaccines can cause blindness.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: COVID-19 vaccines can cause blindness.
Partly_True: Almost 70 percent of Americans over 65 years of age are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

Partly_True: Almost 70 percent of Americans over 65 years of age are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Misleading: COVID-19 lockdowns have led to the deaths of about 228,000 children in South Asia.
Health-Covid Human Rights-General

Misleading: COVID-19 lockdowns have led to the deaths of about 228,000 children in South Asia.
Misleading: A Stanford University study concluded that face masks worn to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 do not work.
Health-Covid

Misleading: A Stanford University study concluded that face masks worn to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 do not work.
False: Industrial oxygen cannot be converted and used as medical oxygen.
Health-Covid

False: Industrial oxygen cannot be converted and used as medical oxygen.
False: An Iftar party held in Hyderabad, Telangana, flouted COVID-19 rules.
Health-Covid

False: An Iftar party held in Hyderabad, Telangana, flouted COVID-19 rules.
False: The U.S. physician Dr. Stanley Plotkin used hundreds of aborted human fetuses to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

False: The U.S. physician Dr. Stanley Plotkin used hundreds of aborted human fetuses to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
Unverifiable: Two hundred and fifty ventilators issued by the central government are lying unutilized in a Punjab government warehouse.
Health-Covid Politics-General

Unverifiable: Two hundred and fifty ventilators issued by the central government are lying unutilized in a Punjab government warehouse.
False: European countries cannot mandate compulsory childhood vaccinations.
Health-Vaccines Politics-Policy

False: European countries cannot mandate compulsory childhood vaccinations.
False: Harvard University has praised the Yogi Adityanath government for its handling the migrant crisis during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Health-Covid Politics-General

False: Harvard University has praised the Yogi Adityanath government for its handling the migrant crisis during the COVID-19 lockdown.
True: U.K. adults under 30 have been advised to take an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Health-Covid Health-Vaccines

True: U.K. adults under 30 have been advised to take an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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