Fact Check: Did Bill Gates tag coronavirus outbreak 'a great corrector'?
New Delhi : A long letter attributed to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is getting viral on social media with claims that the novel coronavirus has a "spiritual purpose" and is "a great corrector".
Well, all these claims have been made under the touted 14-point letter which is believed to be Bill Gates' thoughts on how it is a lesson we all must learn from COVID 19.
Several Facebook users posted the picture of the letter on their posts and made it viral on social media.
News Heads team tried to found the authenticity of the letter and found it to be a fake letter.
We went through all the recent interactions between Bill Gates and the public via any medium.
On March 25, 2020, Gates participated in a TED Talk where he spoke about how we should face the pandemic, but nowhere did he say that coronavirus has a "spiritual purpose".
On March 19, 2020, Gates answered people's queries regarding COVID-19 on Reddit.
In the entire Q&A session (https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/A-coronavirus-AMA), he never said that he prefers to see novel coronavirus as "a great corrector".
Gates also wrote an article titled 'How to Respond to COVID-19' on February 28, 2020.
Even in this article, he has not claimed that novel coronavirus has a "spiritual purpose".
COVID-19 could be a once-in-a-century pandemic, but the good news is that there are steps we can take now to slow its impact and help us respond more effectively when the next epidemic arrives. #COVID19 https://t.co/7alFsXL27h
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) February 28, 2020
Spanish fact-check website 'Maltidita.es' had contacted Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation regarding the viral letter and confirmed that Bill Gates "was not the author of this letter, nor is he related to it in any way".
There is no evidence which confirms that Bill Gates wrote the viral letter on Covid-19.
