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Court fines govt retiree RM5,000 for spreading fake news on Covid-19

Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020 02:24 PM MYT

SANDAKAN, Feb 12 ― A former employee of the Sabah State Railway Department was fined RM5,000, in default 10 months’ jail, by the Magistrate’s Court here today for spreading fake news on Covid-19. He was charged with circulating a statement conducing to public mischief through a Whatsapp application on a prisoner in Sandakan Prison who died from Covid-19, the official name given by the World Health Organisation for the 2019 novel coronavirus.

 

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