A video of a newborn baby lifting a stainless tray while a nurse holds the baby upside down in an operating theatre is being widely shared on social media. The post asserts that shortly after Chandrayan-3 hoisted the Indian flag on the moon, a new scientist was born in the country. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: A video of a newborn baby lifting a tray in the operation theatre, which was connected to the Chandrayan-3 mission.
Fact: The video shared in the post is circulating on social media at least since 21 August 2023. Though we could not ascertain the exact details of where and when this video was taken, it is confirmed that the video is old and was circulating on social media before the Chandrayan-3 landing on the moon. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
On reverse image search of the screenshots of the video, a video showing similar visuals was found published by a YouTube channel on 21 August 2023. The Chandrayan-3 was launched on 14 July 2023 and landed on the moon on 23 August 2023. So, it is confirmed that the video shared in the post was circulating on social media before the Chandrayan-3 landed on the moon.
Several news sites published articles reporting about this video of a newborn baby lifting the stain-less tray moments after birth. A few of those articles can be seen here, here, here, and here. But none of these news reports provided the details of when and where the video was taken. Though we could not ascertain the exact details of the video, it is confirmed that the video is old and had nothing to do with Chandrayan-3.
To sum it up, this newborn baby who is seen lifting a tray in the video was born before the landing of Chandrayan-3.
