A video of a group of children wearing hazmat suits has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows them attending school in Shanghai during the city's Covid-19 lockdown. However, the video was actually filmed in China's northern Hebei province. Schools in Shanghai -- China's largest city -- reverted to online learning in mid-March and in-person classes were not scheduled to resume until June.

"This is how children go to school during the lockdown in Shanghai," reads a tweet posted here on April 30, 2022.

Traditional Chinese-language characters visible in the background of the clip translate to English as "Study hard and make progress every day".

The clip has been viewed more than 123,000 times.

The video circulated online after Shanghai was almost entirely locked down in April when it became the epicentre of the country's worst coronavirus outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.

Claims the clip shows pupils attending school in Shanghai were also shared elsewhere on Twitter here, here and here; on Facebook here, here and here; and on YouTube here and here.

British tabloids The Daily Mirror and The Sun also claimed the video shows schoolchildren in Shanghai.

However, the video was actually filmed in China's northern Hebei province.

Schools in Shanghai reverted to online learning on March 12, weeks before the city's lockdown officially began.

Local education officials announced on May 26 that in-person classes would gradually...

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