Claim: A picture showing people unwell on the streets of India was taken during a gas leak in 2020, not during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. This suggests that casualties from the current wave of Covid-19 in India are being exaggerated, and that Covid-19 is a conspiracy.
Fact-check: A mistake in the New York Post has been misconstrued as a sign of Covid-19 conspiracy - Full Fact
Verdict: this image was incorrectly used in a new york post article about the covid-19 pandemic, but it actually comes from a video taken in 2020 after a gas leak in visakhapatnam, india. the outlet has since corrected the mistake, and there is nothing to suggest it is evidence of a conspiracy.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Daniella De Block Golding
Date published: 2021-05-13T00:00:00