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Screengrabs of some of Adham Al Sayed’s videos, which show daily life in Wuhan under quarantine.

Meet the Lebanese student who decided to stay in Wuhan despite Covid-19
In Iran, petrol theft has increased since a price hike. Screen captures of videos shared online since December 2019.

In Iran, petrol prices are so high that people have resorted to stealing it
These photos, posted by Médard Koudébi, the president of the NGO Bénin Diaspora Assistance, show unhygienic conditions at a slaughterhouse in Cotonou.

Butchers call out ‘appalling’ conditions at Benin’s main slaughterhouse
Screengrabs of a video that was shared widely on Twitter.

Did police kill a woman escaping a COVID-19 quarantine in China?
An officer in the Afghan army based in the south of the country sent us this photo, explaining that what you see in the photo is the ration for five people.

‘We haven't eaten for days’: Afghan soldiers suffer amid widespread corruption

One fast-food restaurant in Afghanistan recently made a buzz by employing a robot as a waiter. Source: @IsmailHotak1

Afghanistan has its first robotic waiter – but is that a good thing?
On the left, the artist Ekaterina Nenasheva shows an example of this type of make-up and on the right, a member of the collective poses in front of a CCTV camera.

Russian artists wear anti-facial recognition make-up… and get arrested

Screengrabs of Snapchat stories filmed in Sadraynla Square on February 5, 2020.

How Iraq’s 'blue hat' militiamen went from protecting to killing protesters
A Chinese shopkeeper and citizen journalist known as Fangbin was detained Feb. 1, 2020 by police and interrogated after he posted videos on his YouTube channel showing hospitals crowded with patients infected with the coronavirus..

'Go get a warrant!': Wuhan shopkeeper defies police over coronavirus videos
People circulated this video on social media, claiming it shows a doctor, ill with coronavirus, collapsing in a hospital in Wuhan. It turns out that’s not the real story.

Did a doctor in China really collapse during surgery because he had contracted coronavirus?
Screengrabs of photos posted on Twitter.

Hong Kong residents join massive queues for masks as fears of coronavirus spread
Screengrabs from a video that has been widely shared by social media users claiming that it shows the market in Wuhan, China that is thought to be the epicentre of the coronavirus.

Are there really dogs, snakes, rats and bats for sale at the Wuhan market where coronavirus originated?
The Instagram account @coronavirusdaily posted the video, claiming that it was filmed in a market in Wuhan but the video was subsequently taken down.

The bat section in the Wuhan market? Nope, this video was filmed in Indonesia

Screengrab from a video viewed more than 4 million times on Twitter.

Bat soup in China? This video of a bat in broth was filmed in the Pacific
Screengrab from a video viewed thousands of times on YouTube.

A Filipino couple eating bat soup in Wuhan? Nope, YouTubers in Palau
Screengrabs from videos circulating on social networks in late January 2020 with captions saying bat soup is eaten in China and could be a source of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Is bat soup a delicacy in China? We debunk a rumour on the origin of the coronavirus
Screengrab from a video from Guinea showing police officers apparently using a woman as a human shield.

Video shows police in Guinea using a woman as a human shield

Spanish influencers on Instagram and YouTube have started recommending medication to their followers. This illegal practice has many pharmacists worried.

Spanish pharmacists react to social media influencers promoting medication
An apparent amateur video of a ball of white lightning moving over a train track has intrigued social media users.

A ball of fire moving mysteriously over a train track? Hmm....
Amélie Chapalain, a French student stuck in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been placed under quarantine because of a coronavirus outbreak, posts regular updates on her Instagram account.

French student Instagrams life in Wuhan under coronavirus quarantine

Gold diggers in Mauritania unearthed these archeological finds and put them up for sale on Facebook.

Gold rush in Mauritania sparks illegal archeological objects trade on Facebook
Screenshots from videos posted to Twitter, from left: bodies in a Wuhan hospital; police guard a train station; a crowd of people at a hospital.

Videos from Wuhan, ‘ground zero’ of the coronavirus
Screengrabs of messages posted by a Chinese traveller on the social media site WeChat where she explains how she avoided screening for coronavirus when entering France.

Chinese traveller says she slipped past coronavirus screening when entering France
Videos showing security measures put in place to protect people from the outbreak of coronavirus in China have been circulating on social media.

Coronavirus sparks panic across China: 'I wear a face mask as soon as I go outside'
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