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Category: COVID-19 Watch

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Health News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Manila Vice Mayor Lacuna demos wrong way to wear surgical masks, calls it the ‘proper’ way

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 31, 2020 7:44 AM

    Manila Vice Mayor Sheilah “Honey” Lacuna-Pangan, a former physician at the Manila Health Office, is wrong in saying the correct way of wearing a surgical mask depends on whether one is sick or wants to be protected against germs or virus.

    COVID-19, Lacuna, surgical masks

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts MISLEAD with claims of ‘positive’ novel coronavirus case in Cebu

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 28, 2020 9:27 AM

    This is misleading.

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No novel coronavirus in PH; YouTube channel publishes report with FALSE HEADLINE

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 28, 2020 2:32 AM

    There is still no confirmed case of 2019 nCoV in the country.

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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    Categories COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK Health

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Online posts claiming novel coronavirus already in Cebu, Boracay NOT TRUE

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 27, 2020 8:17 PM

    There is no confirmed positive case of the 2019 nCoV in the Philippines

    2019 nCoV, COVID-19

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