Covid-19: Recent claims about cremations and vaccines fact-checked
By Jack Goodman and Kayleen Devlin
BBC Reality Check and Monitoring
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image captionCovid vaccines have been shown to be very safe, but people continue to make unfounded claims to the contrary
Throughout the pandemic, statistics have been used in misleading and false claims about the impact of Covid-19 and the use of vaccines.
Here are four recent claims we ve fact-checked.
Claim: Cremations and burial rates are no higher than normal
Verdict: This is not correct. Across the UK, there was a sharp increase in cremations in 2020.
Over recent months, people have been sharing data from Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs) about cremations and burials in different local authorities across the UK.
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It is the crudest expression of global dysfunction that the world produces enough food to feed us all, yet undernutrition and obesity coexist.
In 2021, nearly half the global population is affected by malnutrition in one of its forms. And while it remains shocking to see a growing number of children stunted from undernourishment, the balance has shifted: more deaths result from overweight and obesity globally than underweight. Furthermore, people are now affected by multiple forms of malnutrition; for example, an individual can be simultaneously affected by obesity and deficient in essential micronutrients.
The international community needs to transform the type of food systems that have created this situation into ones that nourish, sustain and allow all people to thrive while living within our planetary boundaries.