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The photo is from 2020 as the Mail claimed and first appeared on a Facebook group for canal boat owners. Read
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The new coronavirus can cause many thousands of deaths even though Covid-19 is no longer considered a “high consequence infectious disease”. Read
Full Fact’s Researcher Dr. Dora-Olivia Vicol looks at health misinformation, and how fact checkers and the general public can stand up to crises, conspiracies, and inaccurate everyday health advice. Read
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Some of Dominic Cummings’s choices were not specifically permitted by the guidelines, and it appears that he did not fully explore the alternatives, as was required. Read
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It is still too early to know the effect of school openings will have on coronavirus cases in France. Read
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New findings that 19 million people in the UK have already had the new coronavirus are very uncertain. Read
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The Wayback Machine website shows the edit being made in mid-April 2020. Read
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The Prime Minister claimed £900 million had been raised by the surcharge, but there was some confusion as to whether he was only referring to contributions from health workers. Read
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A quarter of patients who died with Covid-19 in English hospitals had diabetes. But that doesn’t mean that all these deaths were linked to diabetes. Read
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In PMQs, Boris Johnson misspoke by saying 125,000 care home staff and 118,000 care home workers have been tested for coronavirus. Read
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