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Are the Chinese burning live pigs to curb coronavirus?

The post claims that the Chinese Government is burning and burying live pigs to control coronavirus.

migrator

Chennai

A 85-second video showing live pigs being burnt to contain coronavirus in China is going viral on Facebook. The post claims that the Chinese Government is burning and burying live pigs to control coronavirus.

On checking its validity, it was found that the video was uploaded on January 11, 2019 on YouTube during the Swine flu epidemic. China had slaughtered a number of pigs in 2018 which was reported by many news websites.

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