This tweet, which claims to show South African school children who died because of the Covid-19 vaccine, is FALSE.
The tweet shows two graphic pictures of prostrate children dressed in green school uniforms with the accompanying message: “13 Kids Have Died From Covid19 Vaccines at School In South Africa and no MSM News Coverage at all”.
However, the images are not of school children in South Africa.
A reverse image search shows that they are screen grabs of a video (warning: graphic content) of the aftermath of a school stampede in Kenya in 2020.
The media confirmed the incident happened at Kakamega Primary School in western Kenya on 3 February 2020.
The same video has been used in other false claims in Zambia and Nigeria.
PesaCheck has examined images purportedly of South African children who died because of Covid-19 vaccination and finds them to be FALSE.
This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
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