China asks for permission to kill 20,000 infected cases.
"The article by the website AB-TC ,also known as City News, claimed that Chinas highest court was expected to give a nod on Friday for the mass killing of Coronavirus patients in the country to halt the spread of the virus.", "The website, which did not cite a single official Chinese source, claimed China had mentioned in a document that it may lose its entire citizens if the few affected patients do not sacrifice their lives to save health workers and a billion others.", BOOM received the message on its WhatsApp helpline from readers asking if the article was true., Also Read: Did Dettol Know About Coronavirus Outbreak Beforehand? A FactCheck, , The story was also viral on other social media. (Click here), , The story flew around the Internet as the death toll from the virus climbed past 600 on Friday and amid growing speculation that China was not being open about the scale of casualties., "However, we could not find a single reliable news website that corroborated AB-TCs claim. The claim appears to have originated on the website.", AB-TC: Shady Beginnings, "\ufeffThe website AB-TC (City News) has no details on the site mentioning who is behind the website. The articles on the website do not have authors and are claimed to be written by Local Correspondents.", BOOM accessed whois details of the website and found that it is registered in Guangdong China and was set up just seven months ago in June 2019, , , Although the site is registered in Guangdong, its content is in English and is US-centric aimed at readers in the United States., The site also has other telltales signs of being a fake site with a stack of click-bait links., , , , , We also ran a key word search ("ab-tc.com" AND "hoax" OR "fake" OR "fact-check") to see if the website was fact-checked earlier and found stories from US fact-checking website Snopes and Lead Stories., "Snopes, which also debunked the same claim said, there was no mention of this supposed court case on the The Supreme Peoples Court of the Peoples Republic of China website.", Fact-checker Lead Stories has even detailed a list of its stories that feature ab-tc.com., , , Coronavirus: Battling a pandemic and misinformation, The first case of the virus was reported by China to the WHO in December, 2019. China claims that this virus emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan but the exact source of the virus has not yet been identified.The World Health Organization declared the 2019-nCoV as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020., BOOM has actively debunked misinformation ranging from various methods of prevention and treatment of the virus, unrelated images linked to the outbreak, misrepresented sources of the Coronavirus, to the Chinese prime minister and president being dragged into the circulation of fake news., #Thread🚨: Since the outbreak of #CoronaVirus, we have debunked #FakeNews around the novel Coronavirus. A WhatsApp forward is viral falsely claiming @MoHFW_INDIA has issued an emergency notification. (1/n) #CoronaVirusFacts @WHO https://t.co/0lbBu7FIfO, BOOM’s WhatsApp Helpline, Need Help To Verify An Image Or A Video? Send It To Us On +91 77009 06588, Boom is now available on Telegram, Click here to read our latest fact check stories and other updates.
False: China Seeks Court Approval To Kill Over 20,000 Coronavirus Patients