A total of 3,780 COVID-19 deaths were recorded in India on May 4, 2021. This is the highest number of recorded deaths in a single day in the country.
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Logically→ Interpreters who helped the British Army in Afghanistan cannot resettle in the UK if they are dismissed.
There are no provisions in UK's resettlement scheme for interpreters who resigned, were dismissed, or fled to a third-world country.
Logically→ Prime Minister Boris Johnson used the phrase “let the bodies pile high” on more than one occasion.
In 2017, Boris Johnson made offensive remarks on dead bodies in Libya. His comments on COVID-19 remain unverified.
Logically→ Marks and Spencer is taking Aldi to court over its caterpillar-shaped cake.
M&S has started legal proceedings against Aldi. M&S claims Aldi's Cuthbert The Caterpillar is too similar to its Colin The Caterpillar.
Logically→ Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were secretly married before their royal wedding.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle privately exchanged personal vows three days before the service at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018.
Logically→ The UK Government will fine people £5000 for holidaying abroad from 29 March 2021.
The new legislation will fine people for leaving the UK for leisure activities from 29 March onwards.
Logically→ Patsy Stevenson staged her arrest at the vigil for Sarah Everard.
There are reports and video footage of violence and arrests at the vigil in South London on March 13.
Logically→ Joe Biden will not forge a new U.S.-U.K. trade deal unless it rejoins the EU.
Joe Biden did not say or has ever said that he will not strike a trade deal with the UK if it does not rejoin the EU.
Logically→ In England, an employer must tell their staff if someone they work with tests positive for COVID-19.
An employer should inform workers if someone they have come into contact with has tested positive for COVID-19.
Logically→ The Pfizer vaccine does not work as it cannot trigger an immune response against COVID-19.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine triggers a combined adaptive humoral and cellular immune response against SARS-CoV-2.
Logically→ For 13 years, between 1647 and 1660, Christmas was banned in the UK.
From 1647 to 1660, Christmas was intended to be a day of fasting and modesty. During the time, the Christmas celebration was unconstitutional.
Logically→ The UNICEF has stepped in to help feed the school children in the UK.
UNICEF has launched an emergency response program in the UK to ensure the access of food to vulnerable children until Feb. 2021 amid the pandemic.
Logically→ The U.K. government will ease the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
Anyone who has had the same sexual partner for the past three months will be eligible to donate, making blood donation gender-neutral.
Logically→ A 90 year old woman was implanted with trackable microchips under the guise of a vaccine.
Margaret Keenan has become the first person to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She was not implanted with a trackable microchip.
Logically→ The U.K was able to approve the vaccine quickly because of leaving the EU.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was authorized under the European law, and Britain is still subject to EU rules until the end of the year.
Logically→ Thalidomide was a vaccine.
Thalidomide was a sedative, and not a vaccine and unlike Thalidomide Covid-19 vaccine has gone through months of rigorous clinical trials.
Logically→ Diana was one of the first public figures to have physical contact with a HIV/AIDS patient, during a hospital visit in New York.
Diana shook the hand of a man suffering with HIV/AIDS without wearing gloves for the first time in Middlesex Hospital, London in 1987.
Logically→ Prince Philip and Diana tracked down a rare stag on the grounds of Balmoral Castle.
There are no accounts that suggest that Philip and Diana teamed up to track down a rare stag on the grounds of Balmoral Castle.
Logically→ Prince Charles only said “whatever ‘in love’ means” during the engagement interview.
According to the biography “Diana: In her own words”, Prince Charles also said "whatever ‘in love’ means" when he proposed to Princess Diana.
Logically→ Diana met Camilla Parker-Bowles for lunch before she married Princes Charles.
The two women did in fact meet for lunch prior to the royal wedding. However, the location is not known.
Logically→ Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher had a rocky relationship.
The relationship was tense, and the two women had opposing views on several issues.
Logically→ The Queen had cousins living in a psychiatric hospital.
In 1987, news that two of the Queen’s cousins were living in a psychiatric hospital broke.
Logically→ Someone broke into the Queen’s bedroom to speak with her at length.
In reality, Fagan and the Queen didn't speak for very long.
Logically→ Princess Diana was wearing a costume the first time she met Prince Charles.
In their February 1981 engagement interview, Diana described them as meeting "in a plowed field" with no mention of a costume.
Logically→ Boris Johnson announces a ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2030.
The ban is a part of Johnson's 'green industrial revolution' to tackle climate change and create jobs in industries such as nuclear energy.
Logically→ The UK is the first country in Europe to pass 50,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
The UK is the first European country to record more than 50,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
Logically→ Cineworld is going out of business.
Cineworld cinemas temporarily closed theatres across the UK and Ireland from October 9, 2020, until further notice.
Logically→ The UK is preparing legislation that will ‘break international law in a very specific and limited way.’
The Internal Market Bill does break the law. The minor breach would give ministers the right to overrule or ignore parts of EU customs law.
Logically→ The UK is preparing legislation that will ‘break international law in a very specific and limited way.’
The Internal Market Bill does break the law. The minor breach would give ministers the right to overrule or ignore parts of EU customs law.
Logically→ Boris Johnson travelled to Italy to baptize his son Wilfried.
Boris Johnson was present in the Downing Street on the day he is said to have travelled to Italy.
Logically→ COVID-19 weekly cases recorded high in England since the Test and Trace system is launched.
The weekly number of new COVID-19 cases has reached high between August 27 and September 02, since the launch of Test and Trace.
Logically→ The United Kingdom operates double standards on banned pesticides.
An investigation by Greenpeace and a Public Eye has revealed that the UK is exporting pesticides that are banned in Europe to poorer countries.
Logically→ Coronavirus deaths in the UK have jumped from three to 30 in the latest daily figures.
The United Kingdom has reported 3 COVID-19 deaths on September 7 and saw a steep increase within 24 hours.
Logically→ Gooseneck Barnacles washed ashore on a wooden log in Caernarfon, Wales.
A Welsh family found around 2,000 gooseneck barnacles attached to a log of wood on that washed ashore on the beaches of Caernarfon in Western Wales.
Logically→ In 2018 an ex-Russian spy, his daughter, and a couple were poisoned with a Novichok agent in Salisbury.
A former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia Skripal and a policeman named Nick Bailey were poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in 2018.
Logically→ A four-day working week could create 500K new jobs in the UK.
The 32-hour week strategy could create up to half a million new full-time equivalent jobs in the public sector to make up for the shorter hours.
Logically→ UK witnessed coldest Monday in nearly 40 years as thermometers hit zero degrees.
The temperature fell to 0.6C on 31 August 2020, which was the coldest Bank Holiday in 40 years.
Logically→ People on low incomes in the UK COVID-19 hotspots to be paid if self-isolating.
The UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that COVID-19 patients would be paid £130 to £182 for self-isolating in high infection areas.
Logically→ The UK was the highest hit among G7 economies between April to June.
GDP fell most dramatically, by (minus) 20.4%, in the United Kingdom from (minus) 2.2 in the first quarter.
Logically→ First British national to contract coronavirus within the UK has been identified.
The UK government or NHS has issued no official confirmation about the first COVID-19 case. Current evidence is insufficient to verify the claim.