Mayor of London Sadiq Khan press conference at Scotland Yard, September 25, 2020 -

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Does Sadiq Khan take us for “buzzards”, as some people say on social networks?

Many internet users accuse the mayor of London of having pretended to be vaccinated at the end of September, when the United Kingdom launched its flu vaccination campaign.

A crucial campaign this year to avoid confusion of symptoms with the coronavirus.

Commenting on this Facebook post, a user suspects the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan of not having been vaccinated against the flu - Tom Hollmann

In a Facebook post viewed more than 100,000 times in three days, an internet user posted a photo initially posted by Sadiq Khan himself in a tweet on September 28.

The Labor mayor of London, who had just received the vaccine at a local pharmacy, then invited his fellow citizens to do the same.

Except that by zooming in on the hands of the pharmacist supposed to inoculate the drug to the London councilor, we notice that the syringe cap has not been removed… Could this be, as Internet users claim, proof that Sadiq Khan has never had a flu shot?

Not really.

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Before arriving in France, publications of the same kind multiplied across the Channel.

But these were quickly denied by the spokesperson for the mayor of London, who indicated that the elected official had been vaccinated and provided details to the Anglo-Saxon verification media Full Fact: “This photograph was taken just before Sadiq Khan receives his injection, therefore you may see a cap on the syringe.

As vaccination remains the best way to protect you from the flu, we invite all eligible people to be vaccinated.

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These types of claims against politicians accused of faking a vaccination are regularly published on social networks by opponents of vaccination.

Last August, the vaccination of Annastacia Palaszczuk, Prime Minister of the Australian state of Queensland, aroused the same suspicion on the Internet when she had indeed been vaccinated.

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