VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marikina DOES NOT have ‘2 nCoV patients’
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It’s a trick link.
It lifted content from CNN Philippines and changed the headline.
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III inaccurately recommended that drinking lots of water and keeping one’s throat moist can be a protection against the new coronavirus.
The assertion of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) that broadcast network ABS-CBN breached the constitutional prohibition on foreign ownership by issuing Philippine Deposit Receipts (PDRs) to foreigners needs context.
This story is inaccurate.
The animal source of the 2019-nCoV has not yet been identified.
Vanessa Bryant is not dead. Neither has the BBC published any such report about her.
As the Duterte government scrambles to cope with the fast-spreading novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV, the Department of Health (DOH) announced Feb. 5 the third confirmed patient in the country: a 60-year-old tourist from Wuhan City, China, the center of the virus outbreak.
President Rodrigo Duterte in a Jan. 29 speech said the Philippines is not an oil-producing country. Not true.
Former Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is wrong when he said the country does not benefit at all from its Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, and that Filipino soldiers, “based” on the Guinness World Records, are fighting the world’s “longest-running insurgency.”