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Jan 12, 2022 · Published Jan. 12, 2022. Image Via Wan Shanchao/VCG via Getty Images. Claim: A video shows a group of young children in China wearing hazmat suits to protect them against COVID-19....
- The Claim: Video Shows Chinese Schoolchildren Wearing Hazmat Suits
- Children Wearing Costumes Inspired by Astronauts
- Our Rating: False
- Our Fact-Check Sources
Social media users have shared footage of more than 20 children wearing white inflatable suits with what appear to be backpacks, claiming a link to the COVID-19 pandemic. "From the hot mess that is China, students are now wearing hazmat suits to school," reads the caption of a Jan. 4 Facebook videowith more than 1,700 views in less than three weeks...
Videos indicate the costumes in question are inflatable "spacesuits" that Chinese children wore to school. The China Global Television Network published a report and a YouTube videothat shows footage of first-grade students who sported the suits on Dec. 2, 2021. The video was recorded in Shangrao City, China. According to CGTN, the teacher said the...
Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a video shows Chinese schoolchildren wearing hazmat suits. Videos show the schoolchildren wore inflatable spacesuits in honor of Chinese astronauts.
China Global Television Network, Dec. 6, 2021, Cuteness overload! Children in inflatable 'space suits'China Global Television Network on YouTube, Dec. 6, 2021, Cuteness overload! Children in inflatable 'space suits'China Global Television Network, Nov. 7, 2021, Live: Special coverage of China's Shenzhou-13 space missionGetty Images, Dec. 2, 2021, Students Dressed In Inflatable Space Suits On School Sports DayMay 30, 2022 · 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...
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Jan 10, 2022 · VERDICT. False. A video of Chinese schoolchildren shows them wearing inflatable space suits in honor of Chinese space crew, not hazardous material suits for COVID-19 as some social...
Sep 21, 2022 · A widely circulated video shows a few young children wearing hazmat suits that are too big and being sprayed with disinfectant before boarding a bus. “Kids, please remember,” the...
Mar 11, 2020 · A Milwaukee man arrived at the airport in a full hazmat suit and took a flight to Fort Myers on Saturday. This was the man’s spring break trip. He does not plan to wear protective gear on the beach.
Feb 2, 2020 · News. Photos and videos show officials in hazmat suits spraying passengers with mist as they arrive in Indonesia amid coronavirus scare. Connor Perrett. Feb 2, 2020, 8:22 AM PST.
