A video is going viral which has been viewed thousands of times on social media claiming it shows "dead bodies piled up from Covid". In the video, two people can be seen gathering corpses in the truck and at the same time, one of the dead body can be seen smoking cigarettes. This has prompted us to take him as a crisis actor.
The video is being said to show the destruction of coronavirus, a drama to hide the corpses and present them in the media. Do they claim Covid-19 is a big conspiracy?
So what is the truth behind the dead body smoking?
While extracting more details on the viral video, we found that this video clip is from during the shoot of a music video of a Russian singer named Husky. This video clip was shared by the art director on his TikTok account. After which it is being shared with the wrong claims on social media. The video has been circulated online since September 2020.
The video was shared on Facebook on March 31, 2021, by Advance New Zealand, a political party based in New Zealand, which has been viewed more than 7,000 times.
Looking at the video closely, we can identify that bodies are wrapped in black bags, with a man lying amongst them smoking a cigarette.
The post shared was captioned: "More dead bodies piled up from COVID, but one of them is smoking a cigarette?" Some Facebook users commented on the video claiming that the man is a "crisis actor", referring to someone paid to play the role of a disaster victim.
The video was taken from this longer TikTok clip posted on March 29, 2021, by a Russian user called Vasya Ivanov, who describes himself as a production designer and art director on his profile.
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The video's title reads: "Husky - Ever Clip Shooting". Husky's, real name is Dmitri Kuznetsoz, is a Russian rapper.
After a close look, the video shows an orange coloured truck, bin bags and wall fixture whereas the man smoking in the clip doesn’t appear in the actual music video. Mannequins wrapped in body bags were used for the music video and it was filmed on the streets of Moscow, Russia’s capital.