Viral claim about France’s tax-free health care workers bonus needs context
Care workers in nursing homes will get a bonus but we don’t yet know how much. Read
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Social media
Fact checks of content undertaken as part of Full Fact’s work on the Third Party Fact Checking Programme with Facebook
Not all New Zealand MPs have been ordered to take a pay cut, and UK MPs have not awarded themselves a £10,000 bonus
The New Zealand pay cut does not apply to all MPs, and UK MPs can only claim extra money for office costs. Read
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JustGiving are not keeping £2m from donations to Captain Tom
Posts on social media claim the platform kept money raised by the veteran and intended for NHS Charities Together. Read
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The nurses that treated Boris Johnson for coronavirus are real UK nurses
Both are registered nurses working at St Thomas’s hospital. Read
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No, the UK didn’t turn down 50,000 ventilators offered by the EU
The UK did not join an EU scheme to stockpile medical equipment. However, even if the UK had joined this scheme, the budget would deliver nowhere near 50,000 ventilators across all participants. Read
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Facebook post on how to make a silent 999 call is misleading
If you can’t talk on an emergency call, this is what to do. Read
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The NHS is not asking people with type O negative blood to go to donate at Manchester Royal Infirmary
NHS Blood and Transplant have said that the post asking for donors in Manchester is fake. Read
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False posts that suggest Boris Johnson didn’t have Covid-19 are based on a blog post now labelled as satire
The claims first appeared in the Dorset Eye and now say they may be satire, but some people seem to have believed them. Read
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Crime
If you need the police but can’t talk, dial 999 from a mobile, then 55 when prompted and don’t hang up
If you can’t talk but need the police, you can dial 55 when prompted on a 999 call from a mobile. Read
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Claims about Swansea nurses dying in intensive care were false
The claim that three nurses had died in a Swansea ITU, presumably from Covid-19, was false. Read
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