{"id":71766,"date":"2020-07-24T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=71766"},"modified":"2020-07-24T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:13:23","slug":"fake-audio-advising-against-covid-test-viral-in-the-name-of-maharashtra-mla-geeta-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fake-audio-advising-against-covid-test-viral-in-the-name-of-maharashtra-mla-geeta-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake audio advising against COVID tests viral in the name of Maharashtra MLA Geeta Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"

A two-minute audio clip where a woman narrates that the Central government is giving Rs 1.5 lakh per coronavirus positive patient to urban local bodies is viral on WhatsApp. As a result, the woman suggests, urban local bodies, private doctors and laboratory testing centres are trying to report as many positive cases as possible. She advises against COVID-19 tests, claiming that people have recovered through home quarantine, consuming khada<\/em> and malaria medicine.<\/p>\n

The viral audio is circulating with a screenshot of the Wikipedia profile of Geeta Jain, an independent member of Maharashtra legislative assembly from Thane, Mumbai. As per social media claims, Jain is the narrator.<\/p>\n

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Alt News has received several requests to fact-check this on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our official Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h4>\n

Alt News visited Jain’s Facebook profile where she has posted a video<\/a> debunking the WhatsApp audio on July 11. She stated that the audio went viral on July 10 and clarified that it was not shared by her.<\/p>\n

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Mumbai Mirror<\/a> also reported on the fake audio on July 13.<\/p>\n

\"\"Thus the WhatsApp audio was not recorded Mumbai-based MLA Geeta Jain. Alt News has reported<\/a> on multiple such fake audio clips in the past circulating in the name of prominent individuals to give the false message credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A two-minute audio clip where a woman narrates that the Central government is giving Rs 1.5 lakh per coronavirus positive patient to urban local bodies is viral on WhatsApp. As a result, the woman suggests, urban local bodies, private doctors and laboratory testing centres are trying to report as many positive cases as possible. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":71779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,27],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-71766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-society","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/07\/FI-by-3-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71786,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71766\/revisions\/71786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71766"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=71766"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=71766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}