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Updated: 14 Apr 2021, 7:56 PM IST 6 min read
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Inside the anti-vaccination groups and channels on Telegram runs a parallel

universe that does not believe COVID-19 is real and the coronavirus vaccines are
means concocted by “corrupt government o cials” and pharmaceutical
companies to ‘depopulate’ the earth.

“The COVID-19 “vaccine” is actually an ongoing gene therapy experiment on an More News
unsuspecting populace that is not scheduled to be nished until 31 January 2023,”
reads one of the messages in a Telegram Channel of an organisation called Does This Video Show Wife
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claims about COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. In Are 500 Rupee Notes From
September 2020, Dr Coleman called COVID-19 a hoax by comparing it the 'STAR Series' Fake? No,
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