Claim: Video of Muslims being trained to sneeze purposefully to spread Coronavirus.
Fact-check: A Sufi ritual video falsely shared as 'Muslims being trained to sneeze to spread COVID-19' - FACTLY
Verdict: it is an old video. while the first corona positive case in india was reported on 30 january 2020 in kerala, the video was found being shared, in the context of pakistan, on the internet at least since 29 january 2020. also, the people in the video were not being trained to spread coronavirus. they are doing a type of 'zikr', a sufi ritual, which involves body movement and heavy breathing. hence the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Akhil Reddy
Date published: 2020-04-02T15:05:39