Is the COVID-19 vaccine magnet saga true or false

There have been series of videos trending online concerning a weak magnetic interaction of the human body of those who received jab of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The bitter truth is that it is false; vaccines for COVID-19 do not contain microchips that make recipients magnetic at the site of injection.

However, there are people with flawed claims in this series of videos trending online that the magnets attracted to the arms of alleged jab recipients were true.

Several clips said the supposed phenomenon was proof that people were microchipped while others did not explain the “magnet challenge.”

According to The Factcheck Hub, these claims are false. Footage with a June 27 timestamp showed a spoon stuck to a woman’s arm. A lady in a 30 seconds clip narrated, urging people not to receive the vaccine: “This thing is true,” a female narrator said in the video. “My friend took the COVID-19 vaccine, and we just experiment right now to see if what people are saying is true. Look, this is a spoon, and it stuck.”

More so, a similar scenario was replicated in a second clip. This time around, the narrator, speaking in the Hausa language shown in the video, was male, and the purported experiment was conducted with a key.

The NPHCDA Director-General Faisal Shuaib said it’s a COVID-19 conspiracy that should be discarded.

While speaking with the press, he said: “The anti-vaccination elements have come up with magnetic conspiracy, in which they claim, and are deceiving people with a video that COVID-19 vaccine creates a magnetic field around vaccination site and can cause the body to light up an electric bulb.

As ridiculous as this and other conspiracy theories are, vulnerable people, believe them and are, therefore, continuing to take the risk of avoiding COVID-19 vaccination”.