Is the Australian military being trained to force-vaccinate people against COVID-19 in door-to-door attacks?
An online article claiming the Australian military is training to force-vaccinate people is "misinformation and completely false," a spokesperson for the Australian Government Department of Defence told Lead Stories. In addition, there's no publicly available evidence corroborating the claim.
The article includes a video in which an unidentified man cites unnamed soldiers as telling him of the purported training. He says the soldiers told him they were "practicing running into the bush and capturing those people who are running away" from a forced vaccination.
The spokesperson for the Australian military flatly denied the claim in an email to Lead Stories.
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) previously assisted in administering the COVID-19 vaccine in elder and disability-care sectors, as Reuters reported in March 2021, but they did not go door-to-door forcing people to take a COVID-19 vaccine.