The Press Information Bureau set up a portal for fact-checking issues related with the novel coronavirus pandemic, and it will receive messages by email and send its response in quick time.

The PIB will also release a daily bulletin at 8 pm everyday to inform regarding Centre's decisions and developments and progress on the deadly COVID 19.

A COVID-19 Fact Check Unit (FCU) has been constituted in the Press Information Bureau (PIB) under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to prevent dissemination of fake facts and news related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The unit is headed by the PIB Director General (DG), Nitin Wakankar.

The COVID-19 FCU is providing the official version of any news on Covid-19.
It will receive messages by email at pibfactcheck@gmail.com and response will be sent in a defined time-frame.

On the directions of the Supreme Court (SC) order, PIB has also started releasing a daily bulletin at 8 pm every day to provide information regarding the Centre’s decisions and developments on the deadly COVID-19. PIB’s bulletin will remain active through all media avenues, including social media and forums, to clear people’s doubts.