Many Facebook users in Timor-Leste shared a short video that aired on the WCBN channel about the arrest of Harvard Scientist Charles Lieber.

They shared this video by writing the FBI had arrested the author who made the corona virus. This video has long been released by several news channels in the US but now it is very viral in Timor-Leste. Thus Timor-Leste Fact-Checker also made the decision to write a few paragraphs in Tetum with the title of this short video has no link with coronavirus.

After the Interim Health Minister of Timor-Leste, Elia Amaral announced about a positive foreign citizen who had a coronavirus in Timor-Leste on Saturday March 21, 2020 making many people panic about this situation, and even worse there are people who are not responsible for sharing a short video about a female patient that has also been infected with coronavirus, although this patient finally has long had asthma, not coronavirus.

On Wednesday 12 February 2020 a very viral video appeared on social media platforms. This short video is about a Chinese citizen suspected of having a coronavirus and suddenly fell in Timor Plaza. This situation caused many people to run away and immediately buy masks to cover their noses at that time.