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Fact Check: Can you lose your bank balance by receiving calls from numbers starting with 140

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People will not lose their bank balance just by receiving from numbers starting with +140 moreover, call from numbers starting with +140 are telemarketing calls. One should not share their confidential banking or personal details or OTP with such callers. 

A video is getting viral on social media in which some monkeys can be been tied up to the neck by standing upright positions in a frame. Their hands are also tied and they are screaming and shivering.

A Facebook user name Len Goldberg shared the video with a caption, "In torture chambers like Montreal's ITR Labs, animals are injected with COVID-19, which humans unleashed by exploiting animals and try to cure by torturing more animals, instead of JUST GOING VEGAN".

The viral post received 1,200 likes and 512 shares at the time of writing this article.

Fact Check

In our investigation, we found that the claim being made with the video is false. The viral video is about a year old and has nothing to do with the Covid-19 vaccine. It was an undercover video showing the brutality of animals being tortured inside a German laboratory in 2019. Animal rights activists have been outraged after this and demanded quick closure of the lab.

After doing reverse research of the image using keyframes, we found a German news website DW Urdu that had published the a video on 20 October 2019, titled, "No animal comes back alive from this laboratory". As per the article, the video was made with the help of hidden cameras in a German research laboratory by an animal protection group. Investigations were underway against the laboratory after this disturbing video went viral. In this story, the video clip shows a small portion of the same video that went viral. some of their frames can easily be identified.

A few screen grabs of the same video were also used in an article by Euro News which was published on October 18, 2019. The headline of the article reads 'Distressing footage: Animal cruelty activist films undercover at German testing laboratory'. According to the report, Animal rights groups are calling for the immediate closure of a laboratory in Germany after the publication of a harrowing undercover video. The eight-minute footage, released by SOKO Tierschutz and Cruelty-Free International, purports to show monkeys screaming as they're strapped into upright positions in metal neck braces and their arms restrained on rests.

The footage was filmed at the Laboratory for Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) in Mienenbüttel, south-west of Hamburg, by an undercover agent working as an animal keeper assistant.

However, it is true that the experiments are done on monkeys under animal trials for the COVID-19 vaccine. According to a report the UK's biggest Covid-19 vaccine project, currently being tested by the University of Oxford, has shown some promising results in a small study with monkeys.

In conclusion, the viral video showing monkeys being tortured in the laboratory is not related to the Covid-19 vaccine trial. The viral video is from 2019, which was shot in Germany exposing the torture of animals inside a laboratory. 

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