A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows two Italian doctors who contracted novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, while treating patients.
The two-minute 11-second video shows a man wearing\xa0a protective suit and a woman lying\xa0on a hospital bed., Below is a\xa0screenshot of the misleading post:, The post’s Thai-language caption translates to English\xa0in part as: #Covid19 A couple of Italian doctors treated patients all day and all night, without resting. They have treated 134 COVID-19 patients. But on the 8th day of the transmission, they were both infected with the virus from the patients.”, COVID-19 has killed at least 111,652 people\xa0and infected more than 1.7 million others worldwide, according to\xa0World Health Organization (WHO) data\xa0published on April 13., "As of April 13, Italys\xa0Ministry of Health data\xa0reported more than 20,465 deaths and 103,616\xa0other confirmed cases.", The video has also been shared here, here, here and here on Facebook alongside a similar claim., But the claim is false., A keyword search found a longer version of the video published here on YouTube on April 28, 2018, with the title: “Triunfo Del Amor Capitulo 166”., “Triunfo Del Amor” is the name of a television series that aired in Mexico in 2010 and 2011,\xa0at least eight years before the COVID-19 outbreak., The clip in the misleading Facebook post begins at the two-minute 40-second mark of the YouTube video., Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading Facebook post (L) and the YouTube video (R) :, The movie database IMDb describes “Triunfo del Amor” as "a love story between a young girl wishing to become a professional model and a rich boy who works in a fashion house.", The actors in the clip are William Levy and Maite Perroni, who played characters Maximiliano Sandoval and\xa0Maria Desamparada respectively., , 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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