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Wednesday 1 April 2020
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@DogSerbia
Twitter account
“In Serbia, the #Covid19 curfew means we can’t walk our dogs for up to 14 hours at a time. It causes so much unnecessary suffering.”
Read more...On March 28, the Serbian government revoked its decision to rule to let people take pets out for a 20-minute evening walk during overnight coronavirus curfew hours. -
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Fehrettin Koca
Turkish Health Minister
"From this morning we have brought a special drug used in China which is claimed to have resulted in improvements in intensive care patients, cutting their time in care from 11-12 days to four days. The new drugs will be used by COVID-19 patients being treated in intensive care units.”
Read more...Confronting a rising coronavirus contagion, Turkey raised hopes by announcing that China had sent a “new” drug to treat patients. The drug is neither new nor Chinese – it was devised in Japan decades ago to treat the flu. -
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Iran Foreign Ministry
Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
“If @StateDept claims the mounting global questions about US role in #COVID19 pandemic are mere "Iran-made conspiracy theories", then US must answer some of these questions asked by the Global Research.”
Read more...After U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said bogus COVID-19 conspiracy theories spread by Iran put Iranians at risk, that country’s Foreign Ministry doubled down by citing disputed claims from a notorious conspiracy outlet. -
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Dominic Gregorio
senior, University of Pennsylvania
“I wish the economy and the academy were not so easily incapacitated by the common cold. I wish (U. Penn) President Gutmann had heard the COVID-19 mortality rates in the U.S. were just above 0.1 percent, very similar to the seasonal flu, and acted like it.”
Read more...Colleges and universities have canceled classes or moved them online in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, prompting a backlash from some students. But claims that the disease is like the common cold are false. -
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Alexey Pushkov
Chairman of the commission on information policy of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia’s parliament
"Poland did not let Russian aircraft carrying aid to Italy pass through its airspace. This is meanness at the level of public policy. Moreover, the help was for an ally of Poland in the EU and NATO. From now on, Russia should not meet Poland half-way, on any issue."
Read more...Poland denied closing its airspace to Russian aircraft carrying virus aid, and its Foreign Ministry said Russia never requested access. -
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All across the Internet
“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France in 1920 due to the Spanish influenza.”
Read more...The “Scott Fitzgerald quarantine letter” has gone corona-viral in Russian and English. It is a fake – the original was published as satire by the humor website McSweeney’s on March 13, 2020. -
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Channel One
Russian state-owned TV channel
“Well, today we finally managed to see the enemy’s face - the first high-quality photos of the coronavirus appeared.”
Read more...On Feb. 11, 2020, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana published high-resolution photos of the novel coronavirus taken with an electron microscope. -
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Prosecutor’s office
Pskov region, Russia
“Prokopyeva is suspected of activities aimed at the public justification of terrorism, accomplished with the use of media or online informational-telecommunications networks, including the Internet.”
Read more...After a terrorist bombing, journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva commented that oppressive regimes deprive their citizens of peaceful means to dissent. She also denounced terrorist violence as “monstrous.” -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential Spokesman
“It is about some groundless accusations. In fact, this Russophobic obsession could be expected to fade under the current situation, but it doesn’t seem to be fading,"
Read more...Media outlets with direct ties to the Russian government, such as Sputnik News, have broadcast false and misleading information about the novel coronavirus and its disease, COVID-19. -
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Alex Jones
Infowars
“The patented nanosilver we have, the Pentagon has come out and documented and Homeland Security has said this stuff kills the whole SARS-corona family at point-blank range. Well, of course it does, it kills every virus.”
Read more...Among many fake coronavirus cures on the internet was a toothpaste hawked by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. His claim that ‘nanosilver’ -- claimed as an ingredient in Infowars toothpaste can kill the virus is unsupported. -
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Igor Girkin AKA "Strelkov"
Russian Intelligence Operative, ex-commander of Russian-led forces in Donbas
“The militia did not bring down the Boeing, I know better than anyone. And there was nothing with which we could bring it down, at least before I left the territory of the DNR (Donetsk People’s Republic).”
Read more...Igor Girkin’s contradictory denials of rebel responsibility for the MH17 shootdown stop just short of fingering Russia. The July 17, 2014, missile strike killed all 298 aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight. -
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President, Turkey
"The promised 6 billion euros -- they [Brussels] did not release. Now they say they will allocate 1 billion euros. Who are you lying to?”
Read more...The EU agreed to provide 6 billion euros of financial support for Syrian refugees in Turkey, not to the Turkish government. Out of two 3 billion euro tranches, one was allocated and the second is behind.
