{"id":625,"date":"2020-03-20T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=625"},"modified":"2022-02-21T10:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:07:29","slug":"fact-check-did-photo-of-coffins-claiming-deaths-due-to-covid-19-and-cemetery-chapel-in-bergamo-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/fact-check-did-photo-of-coffins-claiming-deaths-due-to-covid-19-and-cemetery-chapel-in-bergamo-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"7-Year-Old Image of Ship Wreck in Italy Falsely Shared as Corona Virus Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Coronavirus infection spreads intensively and has had a serious impact on Italy, which is known in Europe as a country with many elderly citizens. By March 20, more than 40,000 people in Italy had contracted the novel coronavirus, and over 3400 had died from pandemic according surpassing the deadly figures from China as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In such scenario, a photo of coffins was posted by a Facebook profile named \u201c
Tom Hermance\u201d with the following caption: \u201cA reminder why to take COVID-19 seriously. This is from one town in Italy. Stay healthy & keep your distance\u201d. This post has been shared by more than 2000 times among Facebook users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So is it really an image that shows the level of carnage wrecked in Italy by the COVID-19 pandemic? Are the bodies lying in the coffin actually of people who died of COVID-19? The answer to these questions is NO. This image is old and not related to the current COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Let\u2019s see how we found out the reality of this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If we look at the photo carefully, the place where coffins are laid seems to be a hall and does not look like a cemetery chapel. We subjected the image to Google reverse image search<\/a>. While examining the search results, we found several photos including the one from The Sun article updated on April 5, 2016. The screenshot of the search result is given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also found an article published by a UK based prominent news website The Gaurdian which featured the image in question. The details given in the article about the image are as follows: Coffins of some of the African migrants killed in a shipwreck off the Italian coast sit in a hangar at Lampedusa airport in October 2013. Photograph: Tullio M Puglia\/Getty Images. The screenshot of the article along with the link can be found below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As seen in the details, the credits for the image has been attributed to Getty Images. Hence, we searched Getty images with the details provided in the article and we found the image which can be seen below:<\/p>\n\n\n\nEmbed from Getty Images<\/a>