No, an Australian minister did not pretend to be vaccinated

• No, an Australian politician did not pretend to be vaccinated against the flu last April.
• However, this is what a very viral video montage mistakenly suggests.
• Videos from the event show the elected official receiving the vaccination.

Is it because the Australian Prime Minister has just announced his intention to make vaccination against the coronavirus compulsory that a video manipulating images dating from last April has resurfaced? Pictures show Annastacia Palaszczuk, Prime Minister of Australia's northeastern Queensland state, receiving an injection of the flu vaccine on April 28.

What could only have been a banal communication operation has turned into a conspiracy theory: the elected official is accused of not having actually received the injection.

This deceptive video first aired on TikTok. - Facebook screenshot

As proof, the supporters of this theory publish a screenshot in which we can see the needle of the syringe still covered with a plastic cap as the caregiver approaches Annastacia Palaszczuk's arm. The Prime Minister would therefore not have been really vaccinated. CQFD? Not really.

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The Prime Minister received the injection, as Australian media recall. The entire footage, which is barely a minute long, was filmed by 7News Brisbane, a local television station.

The caregiver's needle is clearly visible in these images filmed by a local television channel. - Twitter screenshot

Within moments, Annastacia Palaszczuk receives the vaccine. “I didn't feel anything,” she says then.

“That was so quick!” Premier @AnnastaciaMP was filmed getting her flu shot yesterday before being asked by a photographer to re-enact the moment for more pictures. https://t.co/VZ3A1cGXPF # 7NEWS pic.twitter.com/7wsy2OAw63

A journalist present then asks the caregiver to redo the gesture, in order to be able to take pictures. The noise of cameras can be heard distinctly in the background. It was only then that the caregiver picked up another syringe, covered with a cap.

The Prime Minister also posted a video of the vaccination, filmed from another angle.

Both the flu and COVID-19 can be life threatening and put pressure on our hospitals, so it's important we do everything we can to reduce the risk. #coronavirus #influenza pic.twitter.com/RFHGrK09IF

This gesture was intended to encourage the people of Queensland to get vaccinated against the flu, in order to unclog hospitals during the Covid-19 epidemic.

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