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News of a week-long nationwide lockdown in Bangladesh has gone viral on social entertainment video sharing medium Tiktok.
The video claims that the government announced a week-long lockdown across the country from next Monday to bring the coronavirus infection under control and also claimed that the lockdown was likely to increase considering the situation.
A video was shared on Tiktok on December 5th. Where the Tiktok user edited the video and wrote, “What’s this lockdown, how do people last a few days.” The video received over 20,000 likes in one day.
In the video, the anchor can be heard saying, “The government is going to announce a week-long lockdown across the country from next Monday to control the coronavirus infection. Minister for Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader said this in a virtual briefing from his residence in the morning.”
On conducting a reverse image search using the key-frame of the video, Newschecker found that the video was a part of a news broadcast on RTV News on April 3 this year. The Youtube video titled “7-day lockdown across the country from Monday, duration may increase considering the situation”. The Tiktok video was uploaded with the first 13 seconds from the Youtube video.
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This is not the first such instance. In March of this year, a similar video of March 23, 2020, where the government had declared a nationwide lockdown, went viral on social media.
The government has not taken any decision on a week-long lockdown or public holiday across the country from next Monday in view of the new Omicron variant. Old videos have resurfaced with misleading claims.
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hannanahmed832gmail.com/video/7037913398742387994
RTV News: https://youtu.be/AQTGkzYJ_44
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