British MPs have condemned the actions of the Chinese and Russian authorities that they spread false information about the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
AndreyKr / DepositPhotos the Authors called on the authorities of great Britain, together with allies to deal with such phenomena, as well as to create an analogue of the “big twenty” (G20) in the field of healthcare
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British MPs have condemned the actions of the Chinese and Russian authorities they spread false information about the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The official Beijing should play a key role in the collection of data on infections, to the report of the Committee on foreign Affairs of the house of Commons of the British Parliament, published on Monday, April 6. However, China since the outbreak sought to confuse the process of data collection, the authors of the document.
the Compilers TSSETA give you a few examples. So, the world health organization on January 14 via his microblog on Twitter reported, citing Chinese experts about the absence of clear evidence of transmission from person to person. In addition, the report mentioned Chinese ophthalmologist Whether Wanglan that warned physicians about the danger of a new type of coronavirus before the start of the epidemic. The doctor called the police and banned “spreading false information”. In February he was diagnosed with coronavirus, and in a few days he died.
these episodes prevented the analysis of the situation at an early stage, stress MPs. In addition, the authors consider China, Iran and Russia among countries that can spread misinformation about the nature of the virus. Price of misinformation are lost of human life, the report said.
the Authors called on the authorities of great Britain, together with allies to deal with such phenomena, as well as to create an analogue of the “big twenty” (G20) in the field of healthcare, reports DW.
Earlier, U.S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo made a similar statement that China, Russia and Iran are purposefully spreading disinformation, discrediting the efforts of the United States in the fight against coronavirus.
the press also leaked information about the closed report of the European Union, which discussed the expanded Pro-Kremlin media campaign of disinformation about how the Western countries are fighting the spread of coronavirus. The aim of this campaign is to spread panic and an attempt to divide European society, said in the report.
From January 22 to within two months experts of the European Union recorded almost 80 cases of misinformation associated with COVID-19. It was noted that “associated with the Russian state identity and create fake accounts” that were previously published information on topics including Syria and the protests of “yellow jackets” in France, moved on to “the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus in English, Spanish, Italian, German, and French online.”
Main disseminators of misinformation accounts in social networks, which form a representation of the coronavirus as the artificial disease, transformed into a weapon.