A video has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook which claim it shows a woman who was detained by police in Australia after she tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and was filmed spitting at a supermarket in a Sydney suburb.
The first clip shows\xa0a woman being detained by police. Text superimposed on the clip reads: “Digusting sic She was tested positive for Covid-19 n caught spitting on the fruits”, The second clip appears to show\xa0a woman spitting on bananas at a store. The text overlaid on the video says it was shot at “Chullora Woolworths,” a supermarket in a suburb in Sydney, Australia., "The video caption reads: “Theyve finally found the fruit spitter in Woolworths. #Shame!”", Below are screenshots of the misleading post:, The video was also shared as two separate clips\xa0in posts\xa0here, here, here, here,\xa0here, here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook, alongside a similar claim., The video also appeared\xa0on Twitter here\xa0and on YouTube here, while the first part of the video also appeared\xa0on TikTok here., The\xa0claim is misleading; the video shows two separate incidents at stores involving different women., A New South Wales Police spokesperson told AFP via email on March 24, 2020, that\xa0the first part of the video\xa0relates\xa0to an incident in Gordon, a suburb in Sydney., “About 9.40am (Thursday 19 March 2020) police were at a Gordon Supermarket when they were alerted to a disturbance between a customer and a staff member,” the statement read., “The customer was repeatedly asked to leave the store by staff and police. She refused, and the 54-year-old woman was arrested and taken to Gordon Police Station. She was spoken to about her behaviour at the store and released.”, Australian news outlet 7 News featured the first part of the video here on its Facebook page on March 19, 2020. It stated the\xa0incident happened at a store in\xa0Gordon., , A Woolworths spokesperson told AFP on March 24, 2020 that the incident shown in the second part of the video did not happen at its Chullora store., "“We can confirm this wasnt at our Chullora store. We encourage customers to be wary of misinformation on social media,” the Woolworths spokesperson said.", , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
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