JAKARTA - Anis Rosita's Facebook account shared a video with the claim that Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn and his wife prayed that COVID-19 would soon disappear from the world and this country.
Besides the King of Thailand, several other invited guests also prayed. The narration in the 1 minute 7 second video as quoted from turnbackhoaks, Saturday, July 24 was written
"Shame or not.. Shame, isn't it, shame, isn't it... Indonesia is being prayed for by other countries so that the corona will disappear quickly.. Meanwhile, overseas etc. are safe from corona.. Let's pray.."
Is this true? Let's check the facts!
The video uploaded by Anis Rosita's account is an incident when Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn attended the commemoration of the Prophet's Birthday in April 2019 and had nothing to do with the COVID-19 virus outbreak.
When uploading a screenshot of the video, a similar image was found on the NBT World Youtube channel, with the title 'HM the King attends Maulid Nabi event,' uploaded on April 3, 2019.
"In the video caption, it reads a live broadcast of His Majesty the King presiding over the Annual Maulid in Thailand in 1440 Hijri, at the Chalerm Phrakiat National Center for the Administration of Islamic Affairs, April 3, 62 BE," wrote turnbackhoaks.
The uploaded video has been edited by adding the voice of the salawat from Habib Syech Bin Abdul Qodir Assegaf. "A similar video has also been discussed in a turnbackhoax.id article entitled '[FALSE] Video of the King of Thailand and his wife praying for Corona to disappear from the world and this country,' published on July 7, 2020. Thus, the video can be categorized as manipulated content, " thus.
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