Claim: A BBC News report showed an actor pretending to be ill with Covid-19.
Fact-check: A Covid-19 patient on BBC News is not a 'crisis actor' - Full Fact
Verdict: this is not true. the man was a genuine covid-19 patient, who subsequently added the phrase "crisis actor" to his instagram profile as a joke.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2022-01-18T00:00:00