Browsing Media by Subject "COVID-19"
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College of Community Physicians: COVID-19 Burials
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/14/2021)TRUE: WHO, CDC and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control had issued clear and extensive guidelines on handling dead bodies confirmed or suspected as having COVID-19… all these global pandemic control ... -
Conspiracy theories presented without sources
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-01)On 31 March 2020, Divaina published an article containing a conspiracy theory regarding COVID-19 that had been refuted by factchecking sites. Divaina did not cite sources to back up its claim. -
COVID-19 and Prejudiced Points
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)On 01 April 2020, Aruna ran an article quoting a vague source which claimed that hiding correct information is a trait of an individual's religion (which was also the religion of a COVID-19 patient) -
COVID-19: Is ethnicity relevant?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-03-20)On 19 March 2020 Mawbima published a news item on COVID-19 that emphasised irrelevant details including the ethnicity of a patient and (negative) details about patients -
Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP. - Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020 -
GMOA: COVID-19 Statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 4/2/2020)FALSE: “We are in a worst situation compared to Italy at the end of the first 7 days (from 1st Local Case). Peak of the COVID-19 in Sri Lanka can be expected during New Year Season if we do not take more aggressive decisions ... -
Mujibur Rahman: COVID-19 foreign financing
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/11/2020)PARTLY TRUE: We know that our country has received a large amount of money from abroad to control [the COVID-19 pandemic] ... In general, when everything is added up, [Sri Lanka] has received about LKR 200,000 million. - ... -
Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ... -
Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi: Covid-19 community transmission
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/4/2020)TRUE: …No [COVID-19] patients were reported from the community in the period of close to three weeks that elapsed, because the disease did not spread amongst the community. - Pavithradevi Wanniarachchi, Ada Derana, 20 May 2020 -
Rajitha Senaratne: COVID-19 testing statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/20/2020)PARTLY TRUE: [The number in Sri Lanka considered to have contracted Covid-19] is determined only by the number of people that have been tested for the virus. Symptoms of Covid-19 appear only in 15% [of the infected]. Others ... -
Sinhala Press Coverage of COVID-19: January-March 2020
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)On 03 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the media ethics guidelines while reporting on COVID-19 -
කොරෝනා = කාන්තාව? අගතිකාරී නිරූපනයක්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-16)A cartoon published by Sunday Divaina on April 12, 2020 portrayed Covid-19 as a woman. -
කොරෝනා සහ කොන් කිරීම
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04)In April 2020, articles in Lankadeepa and Aruna negatively labeled female COVID-19 patients as "Covid/Corona women". -
කොරෝනා සහ කොන් කිරීම්, ද්වේෂ සහගත ලෙස රෝගය බෝ කිරීමද? නොදැනුවත්කමින් බෝවීමද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-13)An article published in Mawbima on May 13, 2020 carried the following headline: “Ghanian patient infected 533 at workplace with COVID-19". This violates guidelines for reporting on COVID-19 issued by the Ministry of Health ... -
කොරෝනා: ධූමකේතුවකින් පැමිණියේද? විද්යාත්මකව තහවුරු වී ඇත්ද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-06)Quoting an astrobiologist an article published in Mawbima on April 05, 2020 claimed COVID-19 was brought to earth on a comet. However, it omitted the fact that this opinion is rejected within the very article that this ... -
නිවැරදි සහ නොමග නොයවන තොරතුරුද?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-20)A Ravaya article published on July 18, 2020 claimed the army had "carried away" and "kidnapped" persons under home quarantine "like terrorists". In some instances, no sources were cited for the claims. Later in the article, ... -
නිවැරදිම තොරතුරු පළ කරමු
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-06)This article published by Aruna on April 02, 2020 claimed that the WHO stated that if Covid-19 deaths were to be buried instead of cremated, the resultant grave would need to be at least 8 feet deep. However, this statement ... -
නිවැරදිම තොරතුරු පළ කරමු!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-03)An article written by a doctor and published by Aruna on April 02, 2020 stated that the World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that the SARS-COV-2 virus can survive in the air for up to eight hours. However, no ... -
නිශේධනාත්මක නාමකරණයන් සහ දෝෂාරෝපණයන්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-13)An article published in Aruna on July 12, 2020 negatively labeled a group of persons as කුඩ්ඩන් and blame them for the resurgence of COVID-19 -
පරස්පර විරෝධී පුවත්
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-07-15)On July 15, 2020 various newspapers carried conflicting reports on an individual who died while fleeing when brought to a hospital for COVID-19 testing. Divaina and The island reported that the individual "jumped" to his ...