Regarding human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection news It is being said that till January 7, eight cases have been reported in India. Amidst the discussion regarding this virus from media to social media, the Press Information Bureau has issued a Press release It has been issued saying that this virus has been present since 2001 and there is no need for people to worry about it.
During this time some social media users While memes are being shared with ‘#lockdown’, there are some who are actually claiming that there is a lockdown in the country.
In this context, a video has now gone viral in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen saying, “This lockdown in the country will be for 21 days. It will be for three weeks.” It is written on the video, ‘Lockdown is going to be imposed once again in India. First case of HMPV virus found in India: 8 month old child got infected’ and ‘It seems to be on 15th’. One instagram user While posting this video he wrote, “Lockdown is being imposed once again in the country”.
Archived version of the post Here Can be seen.
Aaj Tak Fact Check found that this video is from March 2020 when PM Modi had announced a complete lockdown in the country during the first wave of Covid. No such announcement has been made recently.
What is the story of this video?
By searching through keyword search, we get information about Aaj Tak. video report Found from which the viral video has been taken. In this report of March 24, 2020, the viral video portion can be seen at two minutes and 44 seconds.
In this, PM Modi is telling that in view of the Corona epidemic, a complete lockdown is being imposed in the country from 12 midnight. Obviously, if there had been any recent announcement of lockdown in the country, information about it would have been given on government websites. News would have been published everywhere. But we did not get any such news.
Earlier, even in January 2023, when cases of Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.5 had increased in the country, many old videos related to the announcement of lockdown had gone viral. Even at that time we Truth Told.
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