Claim: A video of nurses shielding newborns at a hospital in Myanmar when a devastating earthquake struck the country and its neighbouring regions on March 28.
Fact: The viral video showing nurses shielding newborns during tremors is not from Myanmar, but from a hospital in Ruili, a city in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan, which was also affected by the earthquake.
A video has gone viral, claiming to show nurses shielding newborns at a hospital during the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar and its neighboring countries, including Thailand and China, on March 28, 2025.
A user on X posted this video with the caption: “Nurses are the representatives of God on earth 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾… Saving infants during the 7.7 magnitude #earthquake in #Myanmar Mandalay city.”
Similarly, many posts on X claim that this video is from Myanmar. The posts can be seen here, here, here, here, and here.
A TikTok account, Newswireuncut, also posted this video with a caption that reads, “2025 Myanmar Earthquake death toll is over 2,500 people. Thankfully, nurses stepped into action immediately.” The text on the video reads: “Hero nurses save infants during the Myanmar earthquake.”
We noticed this same video circulating across all major social media platforms, including TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. The posts can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Fact Check / Verification
During our initial verification, we noticed that the video in the claims included a dateline reading, “Ruili City, SW China; March 28, 2025,” along with a watermark from the channel “CGTN.” CGTN, the English-language news channel of the state-run China Global Television Network, is based in Beijing, China.
We found that on March 28, when two back-to-back earthquakes of magnitudes 7.7 and 6.4 struck Myanmar, strong tremors were also reported in China’s southwestern province of Yunnan. Two people were slightly injured in Ruili, a city located on the border with Myanmar, which raised our suspicions regarding the location of the video.
We then conducted a relevant keyword search for ‘Earthquake,’ and ‘Ruili,’ and found the original video posted on CGTN’s YouTube and X accounts, dated March 30, 2025. The caption reads, ‘As a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar, nurses rushed to protect newborn babies at a maternity center in Ruili City, southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
Further research led us to news reports confirming that this CCTV footage, taken at the Jingcheng Hospital’s maternity center in Ruili, China’s Yunnan province, showed two nurses risking their lives to protect newborns when the powerful earthquake struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025. The news reports can be seen here, here, and here.
Conclusion
The viral video showing nurses shielding newborns at a hospital is not from Myanmar. It is from a hospital in Ruili, China, located in the southwestern province of Yunnan, a city bordering Myanmar. The video was taken during the major earthquake that struck Myanmar and its neighboring countries, including Thailand and China, on March 28.
Result: Partly False
Our Sources
News report published by BBC on March 30, 2025.
News report published by CNN on March 30, 2025.
News report published by Reuters on March 31, 2025.
YouTube and X posts by China Global Television Network (CGTN), published on March 30, 2025.
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