A video of a man gasping for breath while lying on a stretcher has gone viral with claims calling him a COVID-19 patient fighting for his life in a hospital in India. The video is viral with two different claims. While one of the captions claims ‘Coronavirus patient was found in Banaras’, the other says ‘the patient was admitted in Mangalore’s Wenlock Hospital’. BOOM found that the viral clip was not from India and the man seen in the video is not infected by Coronavirus. Also, Wenlock District Hospital clarified in a statement that the video was not from the hospital, and filed a police complaint against those circulating it.
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