Clip Of Vaccine Administered With Empty Syringe Is From Mexico

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BOOM ran a reverse image search on few of the keyframes and found an article published in Spanish on Columbia based news outlet El Tiempo on April 4, 2021.

A translation of the report reads, "The Mexican newspaper El Universal explained that the incident occurred at the National School of Biological Sciences Zacatenco Unit of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and that the Institute Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) acknowledged the error and apologised for the facts"

El Universal's YouTube channel uploaded a report on it on April 4, 2022

Zoé Robledo Aburto, general director of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (or Instituto Mexicano del Seguro in Spanish) (IMSS), considered that it could be "a human error " that an older adult was vaccinated against COVID-19 with an empty syringe in the Zacatenco Unit of the National Polytechnic Institute ( IPN) for which, he indicated, an investigation of the case has already been initiated, reported El Universal on April 5, 2021.

Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) released a statement on Twitter about the error.

Argentinian Fact Checking site Chequeado on April 16, 2021 fact checked the same.

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