“Video of passengers infected with Coronavirus on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Italy that reached Addis Ababa airport”
Social media posts
Claim dated 19 Apr 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The video is of an ‘Emergency Exercise’ at Blaise Diagne International Airport (Senegal) in November 2019. So, the video is of a drill that was conducted a month earlier before the first Coronavirus case was detected in China
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 April 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 19 March 2020. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.