Video of Bihar nurse injecting empty syringe without COVID vaccine shared as UP

A video of a nurse administering an empty syringe and passing it off as COVID-19 vaccine has been shared as an incident from Uttar Pradesh.

नर्स ने इंजेक्शन में दवाई कब भरी अगर किसी अंधभक्त को दिखे तो जरूर बताएं इसी तरह यूपी में टीकाकरण हो रहा है।@yadavakhilesh @ARajesh_SP @myogiadityanath @PMOIndia @brajeshlive pic.twitter.com/oQIAnLkvJA

— Abdul Azeem (@Azeemsamajwadi1) June 29, 2021

The video was also circulated on Facebook with the same claim.

Alt News received numerous requests to fact-check the video on our mobile application.

Video from Bihar

We performed a keyword search that led us to a Jansatta story dated June 25, 2021 and titled, “Bihar: Nurse administers empty syringe instead of COVID-19 vaccine.” The incident is from Bihar’s Chapra area, where a nurse inoculated a young man who had come to receive the COVID-19 vaccine with an empty syringe.

According to Jansatta, the young man’s friend managed to capture the incident on his phone and posted the video to social media platforms. He apparently had filmed the whole thing by accident.

ABP News also posted the video reporting that the incident occurred in Chapra, Bihar.

News18 Hindi said that the Health Department terminated Chanda Devi, the nurse who administered the empty injection. Devi explained that she had made the error due to the number of people gathered there. The report states, “After the matter came to light, District Immunization Officer Ajay Kumar Sharma declared that the young man who did not get the vaccine would be administered the first dose once again.”

Therefore, the video is from Bihar’s Chapra, not Uttar Pradesh.