A Facebook post with a video shared by the governor of Nairobi, Mike Sonko, claiming to show bodies of Covid-19 victims dumped into the sea is FALSE. The post reads “some countries throw Covid-19 infected dead bodies into the seas.”The video is being shared amid reports that governments across the world are facing challenges in managing a steep rise in the number of dead bodies they must handle due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of unclaimed bodies were recently buried in a mass grave in New York. With more than 600,000 cases and over 30,000 deaths as of April 16, the United States has experienced a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths in the past month. An examination of the video using the InVID video verification tool shows that the clip is linked to a post dating back to 2018, long before the outbreak of Covid-19.

Source: The Star April 29, 2020 10:52 UTC