FACT CHECK: How Duterte’s threat to declare martial law escalated amid the COVID-19 crisis
Watch this video to see how the president’s statements on declaring martial law evolved.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Lorenzana kinontra ang pahayag ng militar sa insidente ng panunutok ng baril ng China sa West PH Sea
Minaliit ni Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana ang insidente noong Peb. 17 kung saan nag umang ng radar gun ang isang Chinese warship sa isang Philippine navy ship na nasa loob karagatan ng Pilipinas, na sumasalungat sa naunang pahayag ng militar.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Lorenzana contradicts military statement on China gun-pointing incident in West PH Sea
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has downplayed the Feb. 17 incident in which a Chinese warship aimed a radar gun on a Philippine navy ship within Philippine waters, contradicting an earlier statement of the military.
FACT CHECK: Duterte repeats false claim that PH was ‘first’ to impose COVID lockdown in Asia
President Rodrigo Duterte repeated his erroneous claim that the Philippines was the first to impose a “lockdown” in Asia to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Ang isyu sa kalusugan ng pangulo
Nakatakdang talakayin ng Korte Suprema sa isang virtual special session sa Abril 17 ang kagyat na petisyon na isinampa ng isang abogadong Pilipino na pumipilit kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ihayag sa publiko ang lahat ng kanyang mga medical rekord mula nang siya ay manungkulan noong 2016.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The deal with the president’s health
The Supreme Court is set to tackle in a virtual special session on April 17 the urgent petition filed by a Filipino lawyer compelling President Rodrigo Duterte to disclose to the public all of his medical records since he took office in 2016.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Duterte na ang COVID-19 ay airborne, kailangan ng konteksto; mali sa pagsabing ang China ang may pinakamataas na bilang ng namatay
Nagbitaw si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ng dalawang maling pahayag tungkol sa coronavirus disease (COVID-19) sa kanyang nakaraang ginabing mga talumpati: na ang novel coronavirus ay nakukuha sa hangin, at naitala ng China ang pinakamataas na bilang ng kamatayan.
FACT CHECK: Duterte’s claim that COVID-19 is airborne needs context; wrong in saying China has highest death toll
President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in his previous late night speeches: that the novel coronavirus is airborne, and that China has registered the highest death toll.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte sinabing nagbabala siya tungkol sa ‘nakamamatay’ na COVID-19 mula pa sa simula. Hindi naman.
Sa gitna tumataas na bilang ng mga pasyente na nahawahan ng coronavirus disease (COVID-19), nanawagan si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa mga Pilipino na sundin ang mga direktiba ng gobyerno at manatili sa bahay upang maiwasan ang lalong pagkalat ng virus.
FACT CHECK: Duterte says he’s been warning of ‘deadly’ COVID-19 from the beginning. Not quite.
President Duterte downplayed the gravity of the outbreak and likened the nature of the novel coronavirus to others that are either treatable or have already been contained in a press briefing two months ago.