False virus cure claims infect the Internet

Workers produce protective face masks at a factory in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province, on February 6, 2020, to support the supply of medical materials during a virus outbreak that originated from Hubei's provincial capital city of Wuhan. - AFPGargle salt water, use herbal eyedrops, steam-clean a face mask - false claims about how to combat a deadly coranavirus epidemic emerging out of China are flooding the Internet.

Facebook also said it was targeting false claims aimed at discouraging treatment or taking appropriate precautious with the respiratory virus. A claim that the coronavirus can be cured overnight if sufferers drink freshly boiled garlic water was shared across Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in Pakistan.

In Hong Kong, the video was viewed almost 900,000 times within a day after a lawmaker shared it on Facebook.

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