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How scientists are working hard to track and contain the Corona Virus outbreak, funky flourish-leading information on the global spread of The Virus continues to be on The Internet .

Here is how a ten-year-old map of The World air travel has been used incorrectly by news sites around The World , leading to headlines such as "New map reveals, no country is safe from coronavirus tentacle" and "Terrifying map shows how thousands of Wuhan travelers might have, the spread of coronavirus to 400 cities worldwide".

How did it start?

released Earlier this month, The World Population Project at the University of Southampton, research is the prediction, where the people of Wuhan, where The Virus originated, travelled in the Two Weeks before The City went into quarantine lockdown.

researchers at the air traffic and phone data of Wuhan residents from previous years.

could have, according to The study, nearly 60,000 people traveled in almost 400 cities around The World before the Wuhan authorities imposed a ban on travel.

The researchers published a series of messages on the subject of about your work on Twitter, including a map of the global air traffic.

't explain But The Post , the map was part of the study.

a Few people replied and asked, whether the graphic is covered is shown in the red lines for The World 's flight routes, the results of the study. "No," The Team is settled - it was part of a series of posts and to show the extent to which the global air network and deleted the tweet.

But "somehow, from that, a false history," the University press office said to Bbc News .

What happens next?

The card seems to have first been picked up by several Australian news channel. It has also appeared in the online editions of The Sun , Daily Mail and the metro.

The Australian TV outlet, 7News used the card in a discussion and posted a social media video that it was considered now, More Than seven million times.

The Report predicts that the map of the spread of the Global Outbreak .

The red lines, says the Moderator, to represent The Five -million-Wuhan residents fled The City .

In reality, the red lines show the flight routes around The World .

And The Five -million figure comes from a completely separate source. The Mayor of Wuhan gave this number, when talking about the overall of The City to leave before the Lunar New Year holiday, most of them remained in China.

What now?

7News has now removed the card from his.

But there is on many other news-media " versions of the same story, in languages including Arabic, Russian, Polish, and Vietnamese.

And, you perpetuate The Myth that only last week a guest told US radio host Glenn Beck , British researchers tracked the mobile phones of 60,000 people had to leave China, And Then produces a travel card.

"The chart is frightening," he said.

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Source of news: bbc.com