a Resident of Singapore, faces up to three years in prison for the rumors about pandemic coronavirus. Forty-year-old man published a few messages in Facebook, which claimed that “the inhabitants should immediately stock up on food, because in the coming days, all the markets and supermarkets will reduce the work schedule to two days a week.” A statement of representatives of law enforcement.
“a Similar offence threatened with imprisonment of up to three years and/or a fine in the amount of 10 thousand Singapore dollars. Residents should seek information from official sources,” citing law enforcement TASS.
Before the first of June in Singapore, there is a regime of partial quarantine: grocery shops and pharmacies, public transport. The number of infected with the coronavirus in the country more than 13.6 thousand people is the highest in Southeast Asia. The outbreak of a new viral disease was registered in the end of December 2019, in Central China. Since the beginning of the pandemic coronavirus, the world has already infected about three million people.