A satirical caption in a South African newspaper under an image of a British woman getting the vaccine has actually triggered confusion

A post on Facebook claims that the same picture of an elderly woman being vaccinated has been captioned as being both a woman in Manchester called Joan and a woman called Susan in South Africa.

The original image was taken on 17 December 2020. It shows a woman called Joan Burgess getting the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at a drive through vaccination centre in Hyde, Manchester, as the left hand side of the Facebook post shows.

The image on the other side of the post looks to be a photograph of a newspaper, and has a very small caption underneath it. This appears to claim the woman is 78 year-old Susan Smit. That newspaper, called Rapport, is a South African newspaper published in Afrikaans. The caption jokes that the vaccine taken by ‘Susan Smit’ has placed her under direct control of Bill Gates.

Rapport has since clarified on its Facebook page that the photo was of a British woman and published with a satirical caption, and appeared in a part of the paper usually reserved for satirical content.

A Facebook-auto translated version of the statement said:

“Rapport’s opinion schedule Weekly published a photo of a British woman getting the Covid-19 vaccine in the past week. It appeared in a specific space on bl. 3 of the appendix in which we publish a photo with a satirical caption each week. The information in the caption was – as is the case every week – imaginary and not intended to be literally role. The same photo was the newspaper’s front page picture the previous week (20 December) and was there accompanied by the correct information and names. Rapport accepts that the satirical caption offended some readers and apologizes for it.”

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