The viral image was captured during the April 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. The image is over 6 years old and not related to the recent Assam earthquake.
Recently, The Indian delegation to the G7 summit, led by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, has gone into self-isolation after two of its members reportedly tested positive for Covid-19.
Amid this, a video is getting viral on social media claiming that the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar violated the coronavirus isolation rules in the G7 summit.
The viral video also claims that in order to meet United States Secretary Antony Blinken and British Home Secretary Preeti Patel, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar violated the isolation norms during the summit.
A Facebook user name Aslam Khader shared the video claiming that "Foreign media reports that Indians behave carelessly at G7. Indian team insulted and advised not to take part in next month's meeting".
In our investigation, we found that the viral claim is misleading, and the video is edited.
We searched for the original bulletin on the Youtube channel of Sky News, where a similar video was published on May 6, 2021, with a caption, "Foreign Secretary defends G7 meeting after two tests positive for COVID-19."
We compared the viral video with the YouTube bulletin of Sky News and found that the voice-over is different in both videos.
In the viral video, we noticed that from 1:03 minutes onwards, the narrative voice of the person does not match with the previous parts of the news section of the video shared by Sky News. This is the latter part of the section in which the narrator claims that Dr. S Jaishankar refused to follow isolation norms despite other Indian delegates testing positive for COVID-19.
According to a news report, India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and three members of his delegation went into isolation on Wednesday, 5th May, after he said they had been exposed to “possible Covid-19 positive cases.
We also found that S Jaishankar had met Priti Patel and Antony Blinken on 3 May and 4 May, respectively, and shared the images of their meeting on his Twitter.
On May 5, 2021, Jaishankar tweeted that after the two delegates testing COVID-positive, he attended the summit virtually. He wrote, “Was made aware yesterday evening of exposure to possible Covid positive cases. As a measure of abundant caution and also out of consideration for others, I decided to conduct my engagements in the virtual mode.”
In conclusion, an edited video of a news bulletin of Sky News shared on social media to falsely claim that the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar violated the coronavirus isolation rules in the G7 summit.
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