Several online media outlets in Kosovo have published a statement by Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) MP Bekim Haxhiu, who today (January 27) at today's session of the Kosovo Assembly said that the Kurti Government has attempted to present false figures of those infected with Covid-19.
He added that during December last year and January this year, there were attempts to present false figures with COVID-19, reducing the number of new cases, but without providing any facts to support the claim made.
Haxhiu's statement published in several online media in Kosovo:
"Even after two years of the pandemic, the Kosovo Government fails to distinguish variants of COVID-19, it behaves with negligence and irresponsibility despite the pandemic situation. During December and early January 2022, there were attempts by the government to present false figures with COVID by reducing them, camouflaging them with seasonal flu since the symptomatology of Omicron and seasonal flu was the same. We have dozens of cases where patients with Omicron symptoms were given therapy without instructing them to take the COVID test. These people have moved freely and have become distributors of the virus, increasing the speed of the number of positive cases," Haxhiu declared.
This claim by Haxhiu has been published by several online media outlets in Kosovo, such as "Periskopi.com", "Gazetainfokus.com", "Indeksonline.net" and "Kosova-sot.info", the links to which can be found here. here, here, here and here).
Analyze:
PDK MP Bekim Haxhiu has claimed without evidence that during December and early January 2022 there were attempts by the government to present false COVID figures by reducing them.
This claim by Haxhiu, which is not based on any facts, was published in several online media outlets in Kosovo.
In this case, based on the work methodology, Hibrid.info assesses this claim by Haxhiu as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.