Video shows police, security forces conducting a training drill at quarantine centre
Last updated on: 16 April,2020 09:51 pm
Video shows police, security forces conducting a training drill at quarantine centre
(AFP) - A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim that it shows Pakistani security forces apprehending three men after they escaped from a COVID-19 quarantine centre. The claim is misleading; the footage has circulated in reports about a joint training exercise by Pakistani security forces and police outside a COVID-19 quarantine facility.
The 30-second video was published on Facebook here on April 12, 2020. It has been viewed more than 10,000 times and shared at least 742 times.
The post’s Urdu-language caption translates to English as: “Three patients ran away from quarantine in Chiniot. Then what happened is in front of you”
Chiniot is a city in Punjab province where the government set up quarantine facilities for COVID-19 patients at a university campus.
Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:
The same video was shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook and Twitter.
The claim is misleading; Chiniot police told AFP the footage shows a training drill.
“This is a video of a mock exercise which was held on March 31, 2020 at the quarantine centre established at Fast University, Faisalabad Road,” Mohsin Hasan, the sub-inspector of Chiniot Police told AFP by WhatsApp message.