6 arrested for spreading corona rumors

The Dhaka Times Desk In Indonesia, the country's police have arrested at least 6 people for spreading rumors about the deadly corona virus on Facebook.

In Indonesia, the country's police have arrested at least 6 people for spreading rumors about the deadly corona virus on Facebook.

Yesterday (Tuesday) this information was given in a report by news agency APP citing the country's police. Police say a woman posted false information on Facebook Monday claiming that a patient in Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, had been admitted to a hospital for treatment for the coronavirus. He was arrested as this information was not found to be true.

5 more people were arrested in the country for spreading similar false information through social media. A Facebook post by one of the arrested claimed that a woman infected with the corona virus died at the Jakarta International Airport while on her way to perform Umrah in Saudi Arabia.

Indonesia has enacted new laws to combat the spread of false information. The maximum punishment for spreading rumors in this law is 6 years imprisonment. A senior official of the country's Ministry of Communications, Samuel Abrijani Pangarapan, told the media that this is a lesson for those in Asar so that no one else can spread rumors about the corona virus in Indonesia.

At least two women were arrested last month for spreading rumors about the coronavirus online. As of Monday, the number of coronavirus patients in the Muslim Southeast Asian nation jumped from six to 19.

However, questions have been raised about the number of corona infected in this world's fourth most populous country. Questions have been raised that many people in Indonesia may have been infected with the virus.

It should be noted that the new corona virus Covid-19 was detected for the first time in China's Hubei province in December last year. So far, 3 thousand 136 people have lost their lives and 90 thousand people have been affected.

After China, the highest death toll in Corona has occurred in Italy. The number of deaths due to corona virus in the country has increased to 463 people, about 9 thousand 172 people have been affected.