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  • 2020-07-15 (xsd:date)
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  • This video shows Amitabh Bachchan praising healthcare workers two months before he tested positive for COVID-19 (en)
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  • A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook, YouTube and Twitter posts alongside a claim it shows Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan expressing gratitude to healthcare workers at a Mumbai hospital in July 2020 after he was hospitalised for COVID-19. The claim is misleading; Bachchan recorded the video in April 2020, more than two months before he tested positive for COVID-19. The video was shared on Facebook here on July 12, 2020. It has been viewed more than 727,000 times. Screenshot of misleading Facebook post The post’s caption reads: Amitabh Bachchan Tested Positive for Covid-19. He Shared this video from the Hospital !! The video also features superimposed text that reads: Amitabh Bachchan Shared Video From Nanavati Hospital! Bachchan and members of his family tested positive of COVID-19 on July 11, 2020, AFP reported here . The actor was admitted to Nanavati Hospital, a major hospital in Mumbai. The video was also shared alongside a similar claim here , here , here and here on Facebook; and here , here and here on YouTube; and here on Twitter. The claim, however, is misleading. A keyword search found Nanavati Hospital issued a statement on July 12, 2020, clarifying that Bachchan’s video was created in April 2020 to motivate the frontline nurses, doctors and staff working in COVID wards. A screenshot of the statement tweeted by Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital The video was also published online elsewhere in April 2020 -- for example on Twitter here by a Mumbai-based journalist and on YouTube here by a regional news outlet. @SrBachchan inspiring message to all the doctors and nurses who are working tirelessly and fearlessly to save lives, reads the tweet. (en)
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