Social media users have falsely claimed that a top court in Spain ruled "Covid is a bioweapon with a patent" in a humiliating blow to the country's health minister. The baseless claim was shared on Telegram in Australia in a post that was then recirculated in Thailand, the US and the UK. The Spanish health ministry said the allegation was "false" and the country's Supreme Court separately said it had not ruled Covid-19 is a "bioweapon".

"Spain is now the 9th country to take its Health Minister to court and win. The Spanish High Court has announced that Covid 19 is a bioweapon with a patent," reads this Facebook post that shared a screenshot from the Telegram channel @AustraliaOneParty_Official on January 28.

A screenshot of the false claim, captured on March 16.

The Australia One Party is a now unregistered political group led by Riccardo Bosi, a known conspiracy theorist.

The Telegram post was forwarded from a QAnon-related group on January 27. It was viewed more than 52,300 times across these two groups.

The false claim and screenshot of the Telegram posts have been shared nearly 300 times in Australia, the US, Thailand and the UK.

As of March 17, 2023, there have been no such judgements published on Spain's General Council of the Judiciary website, which is responsible for recording updates from all courts in the country.

There were no such results from a keyword search on the court's website for Salvador Illa, who was in office from January 2020 to January 2021, and...

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