UPDATED: Our article with the headline: Suspected fake French doctors have been accused of injecting 20 children in the Western African country of Guinea with covid-19 vaccine is not factually correct. The TV footage is actually from an unrelated incident. Our editorial team were misled by a purported informant who published the story on her Facebook account. We would like to apologise to our readers.
We published the article based on an alert by a British nurse who has worked in Africa for 20 years, Angela Gorman said, She posted: “I’ve become aware that two (obviously fake) French doctors have gone into a region of Guinea, West Africa and given 20 children COVID-19 vaccinations. Guessing money was involved. Two children died within an hour
The post was been commented by a number of people who have expressed concern over the issue not knowing it was fake.
The video below was posted reporting the issue a separate issue. The claim is false; the video misrepresents a news report on children who fell ill in March 2019 after taking anti-parasite drugs. There is currently no vaccine for COVID-19.
https://www.facebook.com/putugah.takpaw/videos/3961011567249886/
Clinical trials for the the covid-19 vaccine are currently being carried out at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The trials are being performed on volunteers with half of them being injected withe the vaccine and half with a different drug.