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COVID-19 media surveillance - 30 March 2020

This media surveillance collects articles reported through publicly available web sites.

Geolocations mentioned in coronavirus media coverage showing large clusters of news reports in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, China and Japan.
Geolocations mentioned in coronavirus media coverage showing large clusters of news reports.
© European Union, 2020, EMM/MEDISYS

This media surveillance collects articles reported through publicly available web sites.

It is created with the Europe Media Monitor (EMM).

The selection and placement of stories are determined automatically by a computer program.

Headlines

Twitter

The most retweeted items were:

  • Japanese Comedian Ken Shimura died of COVID-19 (nhk)
  • A Spanish princess is the world's first royal to die from the coronavirus (insider)
  • Liberty University brings back its students, and coronavirus fears, too (nytimes)
  • The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life (theguardian)

The following hashtags were on the rise:

  • #popefrancis as Pope Francis warned of a "viral genocide" in places where governments put the economy before people.

The most retweeted English sources were the New York Times, Youtube, the Guardian, CNN and the Washington Post.

Okdiario, El País, Infobae and Russia Today (Spanish Version) and Le Parisien and Le Monde were among the most retweeted Spanish and French sources, respectively.

Extracted Quotes

Richard Horten (UK, Editor of The Lancet) :

"The UK Government’s Contain–Delay–Mitigate–Research strategy failed. It failed, in part, because ministers didn’t follow WHO’s advice to “test, test, test” every suspected case. They didn’t isolate and quarantine. They didn’t contact trace. These basic principles of public health and infectious disease control were ignored, for reasons that remain opaque".

Donald Trump (USA, President)

"If we can hold that number down ... to 100,000, it's a horrible number, maybe even less ... we all, all together have done a very good job".

Fact Check

Fact checked: fear mongering

  • Italy did not “surrender” to the coronavirus outbreak (boomlive).
  • Photos of people covered in blankets sitting on the roadside are not from coronavirus-hit Italy, but from earthquake-hit Croatia (thequint).
  • Italy’s Internet infrastructure is not about to collapse (pagellapolitica).

Fact checked: prevention and treatment

  • Drinking tea and eating bananas cannot prevent COVID-19 (animalpolitico, boomlive).
  • Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) or sodium chlorite does not cure COVID-19 (maldita.es).
  • A Cuban drug has not cured over 1,500 coronavirus patients (efectococuyo).
  • It is not true that a COVID-19 vaccine that can cure patients in under 3 hours has been created (thequint).

Fact checked: conspiracy theories

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EMM COVID-19 media surveillance - 30 March 2020

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Publication date
30 March 2020