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Old image shared as Ramdev overdosed on cow urine to avoid coronavirus infection

Kinjal21st March 2020

A photo of Baba Ramdev visibly ill has gone viral. He is surrounded by doctors and a man in orange robes wearing a medical mask. Social media users claim that…

Video of COVID-19 patient from London shared as Surat woman who recently tested postive

Jignesh Patel21st March 2020

In Surat, a 21-year-old woman, who had returned from London, was tested positive for coronavirus. At the time of writing, the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the state of…

Hostage rescue drill video at Senegal airport viral with coronavirus spin

Archit21st March 2020

A 15-second video of people at an airport has gone viral. In the video, people sitting or lying on the ground and getting assistance from a team presumably of emergency…

Mysterious apocalyptic planet spotted in the sky? No, old hoax video viral

Archit20th March 2020

On March 19, Alt News received several requests to fact-check a 45-second video on WhatsApp (+91 76000 11160) and on our official Android application. This was shared with the text,…

No, Amul will not shut its milk chilling centres from March 21 due to coronavirus

Pooja Chaudhuri19th March 2020

A notice attributed to dairy company Amul is doing the rounds on social media in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak. It claims that all chilling stations of the company will…

Coronavirus: Mock drill video by Punjab police viral as real

Priyanka Jha19th March 202019th March 2020

Several social media users have shared a 90-second video on Facebook. The clip shows policemen, their mouths covered with masks, apprehending a man walking down a street. A medical officer…

Fake audio clip attributed to Dr Devi Shetty advises against getting tested for coronavirus

Archit19th March 2020

On March 16, Dr Devi Shetty, chairman and founder of Narayana Health, wrote an article titled ‘Save lives with Social Distancing: How to protect your family from coronavirus, primed to…

Old video falsely viral as goats infected with coronavirus in Ajmer’s bakra market

Pooja Chaudhuri19th March 202019th March 2020

A video massively viral across social media platforms has been shared with the claim that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected goats in Ajmer’s bakra market, Rajathan. जितना जल्दी हो…

Media misreports: Amitabh Bachchan did not share image of his hand with ‘home-quarantine’ stamp

Pooja Chaudhuri18th March 202018th March 2020

A widely reported news of March 18 claimed that Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan got a self-quarantine stamp on his hand. Below is a tweet by Delhi Times which says that Bachchan…

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Muslim husband beat up Hindu wife? No, photos of Bangladeshi couple viral with Islamophobic ‘Abdul’ trope

Muslims pelted stones at Ganesh idol in Karnataka? Hindu groups’ scuffle given false communal spin