Claim: COVID-19 patients in Hong Kong are handcuffed while waiting to be admitted to hospitals.
Fact-check: Misleading: People handcuffed outside hospital are suspected illegal immigrants | annie lab
Verdict: misleading. the photo shows people who have to be handcuffed because they have been arrested for illegal immigration. the police took them to the pok oi hospital in yuen long for covid-19 nucleic testing.
Organisation: annie lab
Author: Cherry Lai 黎芷欣;Purple Romero
Date published: 2022-02-18T06:51:19