There is a new virus in China - the Hantavirus.

A claim has circulated in multiple Facebook, Twitter and YouTube that a "new virus" named hantavirus has emerged in China in March 2020. The posts were viewed hundreds of thousands of times as the world battled the spread of the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19.

The new hantavirus is a new deadly problem emerging in China. There is no cure for it.

A new outbreak pandemy of hantavirus coming from China.

Sensationalist article claiming Nostradamus predicted the coronavirus.

Another new disease called 'Hanta virus' in China.

In China there is now also an outbreak of the hantavirus, with a first recorded death.

A video of Bill Ryan claiming China would be attacked with biological weapons.

A website claiming that China has confirmed that patient zero had sex with a bat.

"Italians remove EU flag and put the flag of the PR of China," the headline says, suggesting that such a phenomenon is happening in Italy - people are removing the flag of the European Union and are replacing it with the Chinese flag.