A volunteer receives an injection on April 23. The University of Oxford has launched a test for a Covid-19 vaccine. - Pool / AP / SIPA

  • A researcher, participating in a test conducted by the University of Oxford, was announced dead this weekend after participating in a trial for a vaccine against Covid-19.
  • The scientist is alive and well.
  • The site causing the false information has already published poisons.

A questioning of clinical trials launched to find a vaccine against Covid-19. An intoxication that a volunteer died during one of these clinical trials in the United Kingdom has been spreading since Saturday on social networks.

"The first volunteer in a UK coronavirus vaccine trial is dead," headlines News NT. The intoxication was shared almost 44,000 times on Facebook, according to the Crowdtangle tool. It was also shared on Twitter and on Reddit.

The false news site specifies that Elisa Granato, the volunteer, died “two days after receiving the vaccine”. The site claims to be based on a "declaration" made by "officials".

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The volunteer, a researcher at the University of Oxford, assured that she was “fine” on Twitter. His tweet, which has been in private since then, was saved by British fact-checkers from Full Fact. In her biography, the scientist claims, however, to be "100% alive". A BBC reporter posted a video of the researcher, also confirming that the young woman is still alive.

.... and here is Dr Elisa Granato in person. Alive and well pic.twitter.com/Csw1WqmBQa

- Fergus Walsh (@BBCFergusWalsh) April 26, 2020

The University of Oxford, where the test is being carried out, asked in a statement "not to give credibility" to the rumors circulating about the test and not to "spread" them.

Elisa Granato was one of the first two people to receive an injection on Thursday. More than 1,100 people will participate in this study.

The News NT site was created on March 4. It still has little content. Older posts only contain copy and paste of Latin text. This site had previously shared intoxication. Distrust, therefore, if you come across content from this site on social networks.

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