Old video of Chinese street quarrel recirculated as 'attack on health workers over Covid rules'

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🇨🇳 An old video from 2015 of a street quarrel in southern China has recirculated recently alongside the claim it shows a 'driver crashing into health workers in central China', as more cities face Covid-19 lockdowns

Some users expressed sympathy toward the driver in the video."This is not an act of revenge on society," one user said."Those people deserve it."

"Such acts of revenge will continue to happen, as long as the zero Covid policy remains in place," another said. However, the video predates the Covid epidemic and was actually taken in 2015 in the southern Guangdong province.The report said the car was driven into several people after a fight broke out at a food stall inBelow is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading video and Sina's video :Local news organisation Southern Daily alsothe incident, saying that the man was attacked after arguing with others at the stall in the early hours of September 14, 2015.

He then drove his car into his attackers before driving away. No one was killed in the incident, the report said.

 

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