Fake news about the coronavirus can do real harm. Polygraph.info is spotlighting fact-checks from other reliable sources here​.

Daily Debunk

Claim: Germany is planning to put quarantine violators in detention centers and refugee camps.

Verdict: Mixture

Read the full story at: Snopes

Social Media Disinfo

Circulating on social media: A Facebook post shared by a widely followed account in the name of a South African politician claims that pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca - whose Covid-19 vaccines are set to be rolled out in the country - is owned by a rich Chinese man.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: Agence France-Presse

Factual Reads on Coronavirus

Elective, but not optional: Orthopedic patients eagerly await surgeries delayed by Covid-19
[F]or some people anticipating operations to ease their pain or halt their disease, hospitals’ decisions about what’s elective involves a grim calculus of how long they can wait.
-- Stat, January 27