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Covid-19: The fake health advice you should ignore

Volunteers from Indonesia's Red Cross prepare to spray disinfectant at a school closed amid the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Jakarta. [Reuters]

The confirmation on Friday of the first positive coronavirus case in Kenya set off an unprecedented wave of false and misleading claims about how people can monitor, prevent, cure and ‘treat’ the virus.

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