CCTV footage is doing rounds on social media and is viral which shows a young woman collapsing in a supermarket in Malayasia of deadly Coronavirus.
The video shows the woman walking around the aisle of a supermarket and looking at the products on display. Moments later, she holds her head and collapses on the aisle.
The video is doing the rounds with a caption that can raise panic among netizens regarding the deadly pathogen. “This is a coronavirus, coronavirus attacks her and she died in 2 minutes, now coronavirus has China, India, Malaysia, Singapore. please everybody careful.”
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FACT CHECK:
But when a reverse image check was done on the claim it was found that a Malaysian news report that featured a screenshot from the video. According to the news report, the mother of the deceased rubbished claims that her daughter died after being infected by the Coronavirus after the same footage was viral in Malaysia.
The incident happened in the Klang area of Malaysia on January 26, where a 20-year-old woman, Nur Izzah Izzati, died while shopping at a departmental store. The family denied that the Coronavirus was the cause of her death.
A fact-checking website reached out to a relative of Izzati, who corroborated the same. According to Hafiz Russidah, Izzati collapsed due to heart failure and not an infection caused by the virus. He stated the same in a Facebook post, where Russidah urged netizens to not share the video in the context of the Coronavirus.
The official Twitter handle for the Ministry of Health, Malaysia, tweeted urging netizens to not share the video with a Coronavirus narrative.
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Keluarga minta henti sebar video kononnya anak meninggal dunia kerana #coronavirus
Rakyat Malaysia, hentikan menyebar berita dan video palsu. #2019nCoV https://t.co/dxYuJG2GLU
— KKMPutrajaya (@KKMPutrajaya) January 28, 2020
For the uninitiated, The Coronavirus is believed to have originated in China’s Wuhan. The death toll has risen to 170, with a confirmed case in Tibet now. More than 7700 people have been infected so far.
The Coronavirus has triggered panic across nations, with multiple airlines suspending flights to China and adopting swift precautionary measures to stay safe. The first case of Coronavirus was found positive in Kerala on January 30.
Final Verdict:
The video showing the woman who died of collapsing due to Cornovirus is False. She died due to a heart attack.
