PHNOM PENH, Mar 2 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s Ministry of Information, called on authorities to take urgent action against fabricators of fake news, over COVID-19, saying that those ill-intention individuals are trying to cause chaos and misunderstanding.
In its press statement, the ministry named seven Facebook account and page holders for posting false statements about the COVID-19, with false claims that, foreigners infected, died of the virus in the country.
“The news postings are fake news and attempting to mislead the public, so we urge people not to share those pieces of fake news because they can face legal action,” the statement said.
“We also call on the authorities at all levels, to take urgent action against those Facebook account/page owners for posting fake news,” it added.
Cambodia confirmed the first and only case of COVID-19 on Jan 27. The victim is a 60-year-old Chinese man from the central Chinese city of Wuhan. He was discharged from hospital on Feb 10, after fully recovering from the disease.
Cambodian Prime Minister, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, wrote on his Facebook page that, so far, there has been no new confirmed case of the virus in the kingdom.
Ministry of Health secretary of state and spokeswoman, Or Vandine, said, the Southeast Asian country continues to strengthen thermal scanning at all airports, ports and border checkpoints, to prevent the virus from spreading to the kingdom.– NNN-AKP
