NUcheckt: Rumors of tens of thousands of coronavirusdoden allies

The corona virus to 2019-nCoV, according to the different NOW.en readers, and the blogs are already more than 50,000 people's lives have been. NUcheckt finds that this claim is unfounded it is.

< / p> NU.nl it got to the last few weeks, several e-mails from readers who are being on a particular item, in which it is said that in China for tens of thousands of people have died as a result of the corona virus, from Wuhan.

According to official figures, there are, on the 11th of February, 1.018, people died from the corona virus. This seems to be the best guess as to what we have now. The claims are that there are a lot more deaths, appear to be unfounded.

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There are several unofficial estimates of the number of people killed by the corona virus is around. The latest comes from Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. He claims that there are already 50,000 people died from the corona virus.

Guo Wengui fled away in 2014, made in China. On its news website (G News, earlier in January, the unsubstantiated claim that the Chinese government would have to admit that the corona virus in a lab has been created and, as a result of human error, has been released.

It is not known where the Star, the claim is that there are about 50,000 people would die from the corona virus in it has been based. I live in the US and says his / her information from the insider to get it.

Rumors about the number of the dead < / p> In January, there were several other rumors about the number of people killed by the corona virus. On the 28th of January and checked in on Us factchecker Politifact, for example, the claim that there is, in the region of Wuhan, tens of thousands of people have died as a result of the corona virus. This proved to be only rumor-based, and the factchecker reviewed, the statement is false.

also, since 5-February is a screen shot of a page of a Chinese online community QQ, which would suggest that there are nearly 25,000 people have died from the corona virus. Normally, on the last page of the QQ, the official figures will be published on the coronavirusuitbraak to be seen, but the Taiwan News, they claim, is a screen shot showing that on February 2, the "actual figures for the corona virus" were to be seen. And it so turned out that there were 25,000 people have died from the corona virus.

It is not possible to check whether the shot is from Taiwan, the News has not been tampered with, and what it means to be actually on the site has been running. A manipulated screenshot of the page on the QQ to make turns out to be very easy. Here, there is no fotoshop needed, as seen NU.nl.

< / p> NU.nl and paste it in the browser, and the number of the dead in the pages of QQ news. At the place where it is normal for the number of people killed by the corona virus, is now NU.nl.

What do we know about the coronavirusuitbraak? < / p> According to the national Institute for public Health and the Environment (RIVM), it is still unclear as to whether the official figures on the number of infections, there is an underestimation of the actual number of infections and the time is between infection and detection of the virus.

The world health organization, keep in mind that there are more infections than well-known. However, there are, according to the institute for public health and there is no indication that China's size, the severity of the coronavirusuitbraak deliberately trying to hide it. The allegations are that, in China, tens of thousands of people have died from the corona virus but also unfounded.

Date Of Update: 11 February 2020, 17:00