A video is doing the rounds on social media where black bags containing dead bodies, can be seen. The text attached to the video claims that the video was taken in New York.
“Just received this video from New York… Pile of dead bodies stock being tagged as numbers.
America has not yet declared complete Lockdown. Now New York is rapidly turning to a graveyard.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, decreed a 21-day lockdown for 1.3 billion people, the largest cordon sanitaire in world history.
Try to understand the seriousness of the current situation. Covid19 is not a joke.. Stay Home, Stay Safe. Be a responsible citizen!” the caption read.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found the claim to be false.
We extracted the keyframes of the video using the InVid tool and found the same video on YouTube, uploaded on April 2, 2020. However, the video description claimed that the video is from Ecuador.
A Twitter user also pointed out that the video is not from New York.
“Ecuadorean authorities said on Monday they would improve the collection of corpses, as delays related to the rapid spread of the new coronavirus has left families keeping their loved ones’ bodies in their homes for days in some cases.” https://t.co/JLmoHk49Fa
— Daniel Sinclair (@_DanielSinclair) April 1, 2020
Also, in the video, the name tag on one of the body bag reads – ‘ Zambrano Loor GIlbert’.
We ran a search on the name and found a tweet with a condolence letter by the Association of Real Estate Brokers of Guayas (ACBIR).
2.- En una de las bolsas se ve un nombre, Gilbert Zambrano Loor, que aparte de tener apellidos muy ecuatorianos (manabitas, sobre todo), coincide con el de una persona fallecida hace pocos días. pic.twitter.com/h9x4caqkUq
— Juan Francisco Beltrán (@jfbeltranr) April 3, 2020
We also found several other videos with similar body bags piled up in a room and they were said to be from a Guayaquil, Ecuador.
“It smells like death”: Bodies are piled on top of others at the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. They are completely without refrigeration or preservation.
Hundreds have died from the coronavirus in the province of Guayas, but authorities only report 145. pic.twitter.com/iYcUm29uaL
— Camila (@camilateleSUR) April 4, 2020
The above information proves that the viral video is not from New York.
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