By Balogun Damilola
Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak started, has reported its first new case of Covid-19 for more than a month.
The case is one of 14 new infections reported by China’s National Health Commission. The patient, a 89-year-old man, is in critical condition and had previously been asymptomatic before testing positive, local media reported.
The man’s local residential community has been put under tight restrictions following the diagnosis, according to the reports.
China has reported a total of 82,901 cases and 4,633 deaths from Covid-19. Tight lockdown restrictions appear to have brought the spread under control.
This week we’ve been fact-checking widely shared dubious coronavirus claims.
One video claims that changes introduced in UK law give the government the power to enforce vaccinations as a result of the outbreak, but this is not true – vaccines are not compulsory.
It has also been suggested that the pandemic is a “plandemic” – a planned event that has been “manipulated” in a laboratory. There is no scientific evidence to support this claim.
Another video of a doctor from Paraguay claims a substance known as “miracle mineral supplement” (MMS) can help prevent Covid-19, but it contains a harmful bleaching agent.