The government is not proposing to make a Covid-19 vaccine mandatory
Evidence submitted to the human rights committee by four academics has been misunderstood. Read
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Grace Rahman
News & Online Editor
Grace joined Full Fact in March 2018 from the Press Association. She’s in charge of our work on the Third Party Fact Checking programme with Facebook and is particularly interested in debunking rumours spreading on social media.
She is a qualified journalist and has a Biology degree.
Group swab Covid-19 tests do not return positives to people without the virus
Sample pooling is a method being trialled to save time and resources when Covid-19 prevalence is low. Read
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A Covid-19 vaccine is not being administered via Covid-19 nasal swab tests
Despite the fact that some other animal vaccines are administered via the nose, the Covid-19 swab test is not a Covid-19 vaccine. Read
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The WHO has not decided attending school implies consent for vaccines
In the UK you can’t be forced to have a vaccine. Read
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Old faked picture of Obama and Bin Laden surfaces again
The picture has been edited. Read
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MPs can only claim £25 a day for food if they stay overnight outside London or their constituency
A viral post on Twitter claimed they can claim this every day and that it amounts to over £800,000. It doesn’t. Read
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The inventor of PCR never said it wasn’t designed to detect infectious diseases
Rumours about the inventor of the process of PCR, which is used to test whether someone currently has Covid-19, have been spreading on social media. Read
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There almost certainly aren’t as many as two million unauthorised immigrants in the UK
A recent estimate put the figure between 800,000 and 1.2 million. Read
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Punishments for not wearing face coverings, not social distancing and for possessing indecent images of children vary depending on the exact offence
One post comparing punishments has over 20,000 shares on Facebook. Read
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It’s true that women escaping domestic abuse can get a free train ticket in Great Britain if they are travelling to refuge accommodation
A social media post shared tens of thousands of times makes claims about the Rail to refuge Scheme. Read
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