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The Philippines, functioning under one of the world’s longest lockdowns amid the pandemic, is pinning its hopes on a vaccine to fight coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The vaccine has not reached its shores but a wave of misinformation about it has started to spread.

After months of expedited clinical trials, several coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are now nearing market distribution, and a few are already out for public use.

In the wake of discussions and the eventual enactment this year of Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), Filipinos saw a wave of personalities being painted in one color: Red.

A Nov. 21 Facebook (FB) status of a doctor, shared by over 4,500 people, is claiming that people who consume instant noodles too much may get cancer because of a “waxy substance” that prevents the noodles from getting sticky when cooked. This is unproven.

A month-old video of Facebook page Lynn Channel echoes another false claim about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

A lengthy post by local Facebook (FB) page Amazing Zynergia For Natural Health that claims to “educate people on alternative and natural healing” has made untrue claims, saying cancer is “not a disease” and that certain food can kill or remove cancer cells from the body.

Experts said claims of the food combination causing fatal caffeine overdose are not true.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not conclude a cause-effect relationship between the vaccine and Bell’s Palsy, and the four people shown in the photos did not take part in the trial.

A Facebook (FB) post by a local netizen claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine of pharmaceutical companies Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE had caused the deaths of six people during the trial phase is misleading.

Several netizens on Facebook (FB) resurfaced a fabricated quote card depicting Vice President Leni Robredo as a communist and rebel sympathizer.

This post is fake. Don’t believe it.

This post is false. Don’t believe it.

The clip shows a two-year-old presidential speech.

The Presidential Electoral Tribunal has made no such announcement.

In more than nine months of community quarantine in the country, law enforcers have warned, given tickets to, and arrested about 598,000 persons, whom they call “pasaway,” for allegedly violating quarantine and health protocols meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

President Rodrigo Duterte and his government met the deluge of inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with a clampdown on what it referred to as “fake news.”

Facebook (FB) page Lynn Channel, which has published coronavirus-related disinformation in the past, has again spread wrong and misleading information about vaccines for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Lawyer Lorenzo "Larry" Gadon, a self-confessed Marcos loyalist, wrongly claimed that Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Marvic Leonen had "no experience" in litigation, and was thus "not qualified" for his position.