Claim: While migrants across the nation continued to return to their hometown during the lockdown, a photo showing a woman riding a bicycle with an infant wrapped on her back and a sack tugged on to the cycle's rear seat went viral. The message was widely circulated both on social media as well as WhatsApp.
Fact-check: 100 fake COVID-19 WhatsApp forwards that we almost believed - First Check
Verdict: while fact-checking it was found that the viral message is fake as it is actually an old photo from nepal which is shared as a recent one. the same image was uploaded on pinterest in 2017.
Organisation: First Check
Author: Deepika Khurana
Date published: 2020-06-12T00:13:42