Claims that a planned World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in May 2022 was cancelled after "massive explosions" at Geneva Airport in Switzerland have been shared in several social media posts. However, the claim is false. Although flights to and from Geneva were disrupted following a fire next to the airport, the WHO meeting went ahead as scheduled.

A screenshot with an image showing black smoke spewing into the air was shared on Facebook here on May 24, 2022.

Text on the screenshot reads: "Preparing for the arrivals of the WHO 'elite' where a Plandemic treaty meeting is being held two massive explosions erupt at the Geneva Airport, Switzerland.

"The meeting was canceled after the Geneva airport was coincidentally blown up. Have a great Sunday."

"Plandemic" refers to a conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was designed in a lab and world health leaders knew the crisis would occur.

The claim was also shared elsewhere on Facebook here and here; and on Twitter here.

Comments on the posts suggest some users believed the WHO meeting had been cancelled.

"Hope this puts a spanner in their works," reads one comment. "Great news," reads another.

However, the claim is false.

Geneva meeting

The 75th meeting of the World Health Assembly -- the WHO's main decision-making body -- went ahead as scheduled between May 22 and May 28 in Geneva, Switzerland.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed delegates on the meeting's opening day, which was streamed live on the...

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