An image circulating on social media saying “stop the spread of Germans” is clearly manipulated.

A photo-shopped image is being shared on social media platforms claiming to show the Dubai Covid-19 facility with a message stating “Stop the spread of Germans”. The image is being shared in the backdrop of the Covid-19 vaccination drive across the world. We received this image on WhatsApp, and it looked like a typo but the image is photo-shopped. The image was changed from “stop the spread of germs” to “Germans”.

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We did a relevant keyword search and found similar pictures of the Covid-19 vaccination centers.

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We have found that the pictures are of Abu Dhabi Health Services Company [SEHA] Covid-19 vaccination centres. The centres are the government’s initiative to increase the testing capabilities thereby curbing the spread of Covid-19 in UAE.

We have closely checked the image using Invid magnifier tool and found the words “ans” were written in different font and colour and were also poorly photoshopped.

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We have also managed to retrieve similar pictures of the Al Khawaneej Covid-19 Vaccination Center. In the original picture it can easily be spotted that the message says “Stop the spread of germs” instead of “Stop the spread of Germans”.

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