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You can see the previous ones here: * PART I: The 48-hour hospital and other hoaxes * PART II: Rinsing your throat with salt water does not prevent coronavirus * PART III: The Ministry of Health has not made a statement on Chinese products * PART IV: The decontextualized video of a Chinese epidemiologist Many videos out of context about the coronavirus and conspiracy theories hoaxes about Wuhan pneumonia take over. For a month now, both Newtral.es like 30 other IFCN verifiers have joined forces to combat everything that circulates on social networks. As we already did here, here or here, we compile the hoaxes that we are denying ## There is no doctor Lupita Yamamoto Lupercio who has found the vaccine against coronavirus Following the confirmed cases of people infected with coronavirus in Spain, false content is once again circulating on social networks. One of them is the image of a supposed doctor named Lupita Yamamoto Lupercio who would have found the coronavirus vaccine. It's false. ![\\"The](\\"\\") The old and new hoaxes that resurface with the mpox outbreak ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") In reality, the person who appears in the image is Sandra Oh, an actress American famous for her role in Grey's Anatomy or Killing Eve. Besides, There is still no vaccine against COVID-19, the scientific name of the virus. ## Fake images that use the name of UNICEF to give advice on the Covid-19 A series of images are being spread through WhatsApp with some supposed advice issued by UNICEF to avoid contagion of the coronavirus. The UN children's agency has not published these messages. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") Contacted by Newtral.es, Unicef ​​has assured that this “is not information from UNICEF, it is a misuse of our name.” In fact, since this agency have published a statement (which can be consulted here). ![\\"hoaxes](\\"\\") Beyond Mocejón: the other hoaxes that attributed crimes to migrants in Barcelona, ​​Tenerife or Getxo ## The coronavirus test in the US does not cost $3,000, although the bill associated with the test may be high Various information and publications on social networks ensure that the tests that allow you to detect if a person has been infected with COVID-19 cost 3,000 dollars in the United States. It's not like that. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The article that is being shared on social networks tells a story published by The Miami Herald about a Miami resident who entered in a hospital worried about having contracted COVID-19 after a work trip to China. As reported by Politifact, a medium that together with Newtral.es is part of the IFCN, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not They are billing patients for COVID-19 tests. ## The hoax of the image of a man with a mask in a circulating supermarket as if it were "a Lidl of Lugo" Last week, an image of a man dressed in black and with a gas mask buying food in a store. The text indicated that It was in a Lidl in Lugo and he related it to the coronavirus outbreak in Spain. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") However, after checking the origin of the image, we found that it was taken in the Tyrol region of Austria, specifically in an Aldi supermarket ,chain that in that country is known as Hofer. Furthermore, it was corroborated by different Austrian media. ## There are no “86 clients of a brothel” in Valencia in quarantine after the positive of a worker in coronavirus Another of the false contents that have circulated on social networks these last days is a screenshot with information that ensures that "a brothel with 86 clients is in quarantine" after the positive "of a prostitute in coronavirus«. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The origin of this false information is a website called cerebrother.com, which As indicated in the header of its website, it is dedicated to publishing content humorous. However, the satirical context has been lost in different publications. ## US health authorities have not recommended shaving your beard to prevent coronavirus Several users of social networks and even media outlets have echoed an infographic informing that the health authorities have Recommended to shave your beard to protect yourself from coronavirus. False too. ![\\"\\"](\\"\\") The infographic dates back to 2017 and shows that there are certain types of masks that They are more effective if applied to faces with little hair. However, nothing has What to do with this infographic with the current coronavirus crisis. 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There are 86 clients of a Valencia brothel in quarantine after a worker tests positive for coronavirus