In Russian -speaking social networks, a video is distributed in which the deputies of the Brazilian parliament allegedly burst into the hospital and do not detect 5,000 patients in the institution there. We checked the reliability of this video.

Video very low quality lasts less than two and a half minutes. The video shows how several men dressed into black men break through a high fence, and then one of them begins to shout loudly at the man in white. After installation gluing, we are shown a certain room where the same person in black shouts loudly surrounded by several people in uniform and empty hospital beds. Video posted on their pages users Facebook, "VKontakte", "Classmates", forum "YaPlakal" and other social networks. Most of these posts have a signature of approximately the following content: “Members of the Brazil parliament burst into the hospital, whose leadership said that they had 5,000 infected and 200 deaths from Covid-19. In fact, the hospital was empty. " Based on the video, numerous Internet users and covid-dissidents conclude that statistics of incidence are “drawn” not only in Brazil, but also in other countries, and the scale of pandemia for one reason or another is deliberately exaggerated.

Our colleagues from the AFP Fact Check found that the video distributed around the world is a fragment of almost hourly videopublished at the end of May 2020. It was placed on his YouTube channel Philip Pulp, deputy Parliament of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. The signature for the video reads: "The deputy of the PUBEN is an inspection of the field hospital." The Brazilian media, for example, publications, also told the parliamentarian. Estadlad And Folha de Sance Paolo.

At the very beginning of the original video, the politician said in Portuguese: “I arrive at the San Gonsalu hospital, which was supposed to open today, but did not open. We will conduct a check. " Within half an hour, the deputy stood at the gate, talked on the phone, emotionally described what was happening, knocked on the fence and poured curses against the state governor. What is happening was broadcast on the social networks of Pubel - this explains the vertical orientation of the camera. After some time, a politician CALL The police and, without waiting for her arrival, ordered his guard to find the way inside. Having penetrated the hospital, the bullet was reported to the representative of the regional Ministry of Health and showed subscribers in what condition the hospital is still in.

Although local media call Pubel a populist (he represents the President of the country's President Zhira Bolsonaru, who is in the midst of a pandemic demonstratively He did not wear a mask and did not observe a social distance), the interest of the Brazilians in the problem with this hospital is understandable. Hospital in San Gonsalu should open back in April 2020, and in total the start of the institution was transferred at least four once. As a result, the hospital Earned Three weeks after the “inspection” of Pubel, but at that moment he was ready to accept only 40 patients, which is a fifth of the planned capacity.

Thus, first Foreign, and about a year later, Russian -speaking users of social networks completely distorted the course of events. The video distributed on the Internet is mounted from a video dedicated to a hospital that has not yet been opened - there are no patients there simply because they could not be there. The popular signature to the video is not true: the deputy was only one, he represents the regional rather than federal parliament, and 5,000 patients even could not accept the functioning hospital (it is designed only for 200 patients).

Photo on the cover: Reuters / AManda Perobelli