Health
Government misses one of its Covid-19 test targets
Government committed to 25,000 tests a day by mid-April, later relaxed to “mid to late April”. Latest figures show 18,665 tests a day. Read
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Abbas Panjwani
Fact Checker (former)
Abbas joined Full Fact in 2018. Before this, he worked as a social researcher, collecting quantitative and qualitative research to help inform policy development and evaluation for government departments and other public bodies. Most recently he worked as research manager at Ofgem, Great Britain’s energy regulator, and has also worked on projects for BIS, the Home Office and the Competition and Markets Authority.
Health
Claim that Conservatives voted against a nurse pay rise needs some context
In 2017 the Conservatives voted against a Labour amendment aiming to end the public sector pay rise cap, before ending it themselves anyway for the next financial year. Read
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Health
This viral coronavirus breathing advice needs context
A viral video on how to relieve Covid-19 symptoms won’t necessarily give appropriate advice in all cases. Read
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Health
No, a survey didn’t find a majority of doctors saying that hydroxychloroquine is the most effective treatment for Covid-19
The poll was not representative of all doctors. 37% of doctors involved in Covid-19 treatment listed these drugs as among the most -effective treatments. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How many people have been evicted as a result of coronavirus?
Housing charity Shelter says there has been a spike in evictions due to all reasons, though not as large a spike as found in a recent survey. Read
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Health
A tweet claiming the Prime Minister has died is fake
This was claimed by a fake BBC Breaking News Twitter account. Read
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McDonald’s is not reopening on 6 April in the UK
A viral post claiming this has been debunked by McDonald’s. Read
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Health
We don’t know how many people in the UK have Covid-19 and the symptom tracker app doesn’t tell us
10% of the 650,000 people who have signed up to track their Covid-19 symptoms on a new app have symptoms. That doesn’t mean 10% of the UK has Covid-19. Read
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This “quote” from the Italian Prime Minister about coronavirus is made up
The Italian Prime Minister has not said his country has exhausted all options to fight against the new coronavirus pandemic and has not pleaded with God to “rescue your people.” This quote is made up. Read
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Europe
The government’s “£1.8 billion pay rise” from a US trade deal doesn’t outweigh the impacts of Brexit on wages
Analysis from the government estimates real wages after 15 years to be 6.4% less than had we stayed in the EU, but a US deal could counterbalance wages by 0.2%. Read
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