A photo showing the bodies of Italian COVID-19 victims on a street.
The image is accompanied by a post warning Kenyans to stay at home and slow down the rate of Covid-19 infections., Italy has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths at 6,077 as at 24 March, having surpassed China where the pandemic originated., A reverse image search of the photograph is of people in Frankfurt Germany lying on the ground in remembrance of the 528 victims of the Katzbach Nazi concentration camp. The photo shows people participating in an art project in 2014 to remember the victims of the Nazi’s Katzbac concentration camp in Frankfurt., A Google search shows that this original photo was originally published by Reuters on March 24, 2014., The caption on the Reuters photo partly reads: “The inmates of the Katzbach concentration camp, a part of the former Adler industrial factory, were forced into a death march to the concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau on March 24, 1945. Some 528 victims of Katzbach are buried at Frankfurt’s central cemetery.”, Data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre indicates that there are 382,644 confirmed COVID-19 cases, and 16,586 deaths as of 23 March., The viral respiratory infection was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019., PesaCheck has looked into a photo claiming to show photos of the bodies of COVID-19 victims on an Italian street and finds it to be FALSE., This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms., By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds., Have you spotted what you think is fake news or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content., This fact-check was written by PesaCheck Fact-Checker James Okong’o and edited by PesaCheck Deputy Editor Ann Ngengere., The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor Eric Mugendi., PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org., PesaCheck is a joint initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with additional funding support from the International Budget Partnership (Kenya) and Twaweza, in partnership with a coalition of local media organisations, and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)., Written by, Written by
FALSE: This photo does not show the bodies of COVID-19 victims on an Italian street