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Merge 104.8 | 12 July 2020
Oman’s Public Prosecution is reminding residents and citizens of the hefty penalties associated with the spread of fake news or false information about the ongoing COVID-19 situation in the country — most recently of claims circulating about the discovery of a drug to cure coronavirus.
In a statement issued online on Saturday [July 11], the Public Prosecution office stated: “The publication of false news, data, or rumours that would affect public order is a crime that carries a sentence of three years imprisonment — and this claim of discovering a medicine to treat coronavirus is false.”
(Also read: COVID-19 serological survey to begin in Oman today.)
