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The Bbc team are fact-checking some of The Most popular fake and misleading coronavirus stories on Social Media . Jack Goodman brings together what unmasked This Week by The Bbc Monitoring, Trend and Reality Check .

False claims about the BCG Vaccine

WhatsApp messages claim that the BCG Vaccine prevents coronavirus-infection inaccurate.

The Bacilli-Calmette-Guerin Vaccine was given to children around The World to combat tuberculosis, and was widely used in the secondary schools in the UK until 2005.

It is still in the UK, if a child or adult may be At Risk to come in contact with tuberculosis.

It is still common in many countries, such as Syria, where it spread rumours that the people should not worry coronavirus make if you had the BCG Vaccine , because it gives you immunity.

A WhatsApp message in Arabic says that if the circular scar of the Jab on your arm, you could be "75%" protected against Covid-19.

However, The World health organization.

the health of The body says that two are clinical trials going on with BCG, and when completed, their results will be evaluated by The Who .

Despite the lack of medical evidence, the global search for the term "BCG" has spiked, according to Google.

The Who is concerned that the increased demand for the Vaccine means that There is less of it available to vaccinate children against tuberculosis.

Similar fears have also been expressed already, from suppliers in Japan, reports an increase in demand for BCG Vaccine .

for A demonstration, broadcast on Iranian state television, included to ensure no data, the theory presented behind The Device is Iran's dodgy detector

the head of Iran's revolutionary guards (IRGC), a hand-held device This Week , which he claimed could identify people infected with coronavirus - and even contaminated surfaces up to a distance of 100m and within five seconds.

The Physics society of Iran, described The Announcement as "pseudo-science", "incredible" and on a par with "sci-fi stories".

The Device bears an uncanny resemblance to the fake-bomb-detector-tools sold by British fraudsters in front of More Than a decade, all claimed the same "electrostatic magnetic ion attraction".

The bogus bomb detectors were, in fact, empty cases, with an antenna that swings to the needs of the user's unconscious movements of the hand. They ended up In Conflict zones and.

The newest device has an almost identical case and antenna.

Even the packaging, which can be seen in a clip, it is revealed, the looks on Iranian state television, in a similar way.

The Virus was not released, created in a laboratory

A video of the Epoch Times, that claims that the Corona-Virus was made in a laboratory, it was marked wrong on Facebook, where it has been watched almost 70 million times.

The opening feels like a slick and dramatic Netflix Documentary - it is a flash and a Bang from a flash of lightning, followed by ominous music.

The hour-long video contains a theory about a laboratory in Wuhan, with the creation of The Virus and licking it, due to poor security.

The Bbc 's science editor Paul Rincon says.

the Scientific evaluation of the available data, The Virus came from the animals, and was not man-made.

A peer-review study in March found no evidence that the coronavirus had been developed, stating that "it is unlikely. "

The video also refers to a study from Indian researchers, which claimed that four inserted new sequences, the new coronavirus, which also suggest in the case of HIV, The Virus is man-made.

But that the paper was never peer-reviewed, has been withdrawn by its authors. And.

"are These sequences so short that they match with many different organisms, not just HIV. It does not mean that they are related," says Dr. Jeremy rossmann, a virologist at the University of Kent.

the Epoch Times, based in New York City was of Chinese-Americans connected.

The Site spent heavily on pro-Donald Trump Facebook advertising in the past year, reported Nbc News .

But in August, Facebook banned it from even more advertising for the violation of their policy.

More Bill Gates rumors

This Week , a New Wave of false triggered information and speculation about Mr. Gates.

It's familiar themes, such as the criticism of Mr. Gates' support for vaccines that followed.

Several posts appeared on Facebook claiming that a Research Institute funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates has a Foundation, the patent on the coronavirus causing the current pandemic.

These statements are all completely unfounded. The proposal that Covid-19 is a human creation is sponsored by Bill Gates , is wrong.

False claims that The Virus fake spread online, The Covid pandemic is not a fake

The Corona-Virus-pandemic is "fake" and "really a farce" is The Claim of a holistic doctor in an Interview with Canal Monteria, Colombia-based news channel. The video went up last month, but has has now been viewed 18 million times and is still on Facebook, this is the reason why we speak of it now.

The assertion is clearly wrong - Corona Virus is present.

The Man in the video goes unchallenged, and says that the current theories about viruses, all of which are wrong, and recommends a video on YouTube to prove that denies the existence of HIV, its point.

not explain at any point why people are always sick.

Additional reporting by Flora Carmichael, Alma Hassoun, Marianna spring, Olga Robinson, rehab Kansara, ShayanSardarizadeh and Alistair Coleman .

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Source of news: bbc.com