'China boy quarantined at hospital for coronavirus infection' is FAKE NEWS!
Published on: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
The above viral message saying a boy from China has been quarantined for novel coronavirus infection at the Women and Children’s Hospital in Likas has been dismissed as fake news (Screengrab: Daily Express via WhatsApp).
Kota Kinabalu: A viral message saying a boy from China has been quarantined for novel coronavirus infection at the Women and Children’s Hospital in Likas, near here, has been dismissed by a Health Department official as fake news.
The message claimed that the seven-year-old from Shanghai had been admitted to the hospital with symptoms of the virus and warned people not to visit the hospital, whose lifts were also “placed under quarantine”.
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“Fake news,” said Sabah Health Director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi in a swift response to the message posted in a public alert group on WhatsApp.
Police and the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission in a joint-statement on Tuesday warned against making and distributing fake news in relation to the novel coronavirus epidemic that started in Wuhan, China.
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