Fact Check: Coronavirus vaccine COVID-19 IgM able to cure patient within 3 hours?

In wake of Coronavirus outbreak, a lot of fake news and misinformation has been circulating on Internet. Recently, fake news about coronavirus vaccine being developed by US scientists has been making rounds on WhatsApp. It is being said that US scientists have developed vaccine and have ordered pharmaceutical giant Roche to launch vaccine next Sunday.  news spread like a wildfire; check out WhatsApp forward here.

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Coronavirus vaccine rumour was initiated by?

An Instagram profile called Tooro Television, which also has a Facebook profile and Twitter handle by same name, reportedly initiated rumour. It posted a photo of sachets of SGTI-flex COVID-19 IgM/IgG, claiming that it was coronavirus vaccine. Here is screenshot of  Instagram post, take a look.

Im courtesy: Tooro_tv Instagram

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Republic TV did a fact check about coronavirus vaccine

• statement is false according to fact check performed by Republic TV team. kit shown in post is actually an IgM testing kit and t a vaccine.  kit is called SGTi-flex COVID-19 IgM/IgG. 
• According to company Sugentech, which manufactures it, kit is made up of gold naparticle-based immuchromatographic, which is used for determination of IgM and IgG. test is done by taking blood, serum or plasma sample of person.
• company Sugentech is based in South Korea. 
• second statement mentions that Roche pharmaceuticals has been ordered to launch vaccines - this is also False.
• According to reports, company Roche Holding and AG will be soon launching test kits to determine wher a person is positive for coronavirus or t. 

Check out Google trend analysis of "Coronavirus vaccine rumour" that shows how widespread  rumour is and why people want to kw truth about it. 

Google trends analysis of this rumour

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re have been many rumours like se, including "Russia left 800 lions on streets to ensure that person steps out". Republic TV did a fact check about  same and here take a look at what we found: 

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Amidst widespread sharing of such fake news,  government has asked social media companies to control spread of such rumours. An advisory was sent out on March 20 to remove any misinformation about vel coronavirus COVID-19 and initiate awareness campaigns so that people can identify a hoax or rumour before sharing it with ors.

COVID-19 Vaccine: Latest developments

• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned that antibody tests are still in study phase. 
• Roche Holding and AG’s new high-speed tool that can carry out more than 4,000 results in a single day is expected to help most in need. 
• US President Donald Trump approved use of anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use against vel coronavirus. He mentioned that chloroquine had shown very encouraging early results, although some more trails are still going on. 
• Reportedly, three COVID-19 patients in Rajasthan were successfully cured with a combination of swine flu medicines, chloroquine, and HIV drugs.
• Russia's Federal Medical Biological ncy (FMBA) on Friday stated that three prototypes of a vaccine against COVID-19 are already ready. y are undergoing animal testing and results of pilot tests are expected in June. vaccine is expected to be ready in next 11 months.
• Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp believes that his company CureVac will be ready with COVID-19 vaccine by autumn. Dietmar said that it would depend on  Paul-Ehrlich-Institute on how fast y can develop a vaccine. However, vaccine would have to go through its rmal course of animal testing and human trials before being released in bulks. 
• In February, Dr Bruce Aylward from WHO mentioned one drug that y are placing ir stakes on with respect to efficacy is Remdesivir. drug is still under development. 
• Even Israel has started developing vaccine, but according to latest reports, it won't be released any sooner as y have a specific set of procedures to go through before which y cant release drugs in market.

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