5G Caused Coronavirus

This is a very popular idea from early 2020. The whole idea was that the newly released 5G sent radio-waves causing people to catch the coronavirus. Unfounded conspiracy theories about the next-generation telecommunications networks have become increasingly popular online in recent years and Mr Fletcher has intervened as authorities around the world grow concerned about the real-world threats posed by anti-5G activists.

While misinformation about the health effects of the electromagnetic energy emitted by 5G technology preceded COVID-19, the pandemic has fuelled unscientific claims about the equipment causing the disease or placing people at greater risk of infection.

Mr Fletcher has responded to the growing community concerns with an emphatic declaration that the radio waves used by mobile and wireless technologies had been studied closely for decades and no harmful effects had been found.