On March 28, a video was uploaded on a Facebook page named JK News7 with claiming that the video shows an incident when a suspected coronavirus patient was found on roads. 

At the time of writing this article, the video has over 1.9 million views and has been shared more than 3800 times. 

In this 3-minutes-long  video, one can see police officials stopping a car and asking the man inside it to come out, then the health officials come and take man's temperature, all this is done with prescribed precautions. The man is asked to sanitize his hands and to wear a mask, following this, the car is also sanitized and the suspected patient is asked to sit in an ambulance. 

The truth behind the video

In our investigation, we found that the video is not of a real incident but shows a mock drill in  UP's Barabanki, conducted in the wake of the coronavirus crisis in the country. 

The Barabanki Police shared the longer version of the viral video on March 26 informing that a Mock drill was conducted by Superintendent for prevention of Novel Corona Virus # COVID2019 at Deva Tiraha Barabanki with necessary guidelines were given to concerned to the concerned officials. (Translated from Hindi)

In this longer version of the video, one can also hear instruction given in the beginning 'to stop a white car.'

This video was also uploaded on YouTube channel with a title, "COVID-19 Suspect | First suspect found in Barabanki | Mock Drill if suspected for COVID-19"

In conclusion, a mock drill video of Barabanki police in the wake of coronavirus pandemic is being falsely shared as a video of a real incident.