A viral message falsely claims that Canada's Alberta province lifted lockdown measures after a COVID denialist Patrick King won a case against the government as they could not prove that COVID-19 exists as they have not isolated the virus, yet.
While Alberta did raise its restrictions in August, it was due to cases decreasing in the province and the province reaching its vaccination target. The province has reinstated COVID-19 restrictions from December 2021 as COVID-19 cases have increased in the area. Furthermore, Patrick King claims that he won the case against the government, but BOOM found that the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta had quashed his plea.
King made these claims on a show with Steve Peters. Peters is another COVID denialist and anti-vaxxer who has been interviewing other COVID-19 denialists and has spread many conspiracy theories around COVID-19.
The video uploaded in August has been revived with Hindi text in India. The video has been uploaded on Peters' Bitchute link and is titled "YUGE!!! CANADIAN COURT VICTORY PROVES COVID-19 IS A HOAX & ALL RESTRICTIONS HAVE NOW BEEN DROPPED"
BOOM received the link and the message associated with it in Hindi on its WhatsApp helpline requesting verification.
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