MOH may use Pofma to clamp down on websites promoting ivermectin as a Covid-19 cure: Ong Ye Kung

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WATCH: Health Minister Ong Ye Kung reiterated that ivermectin is not a suitable treatment for Covid-19. MOH is also looking into the possibility of using Pofma to clamp down on websites that promote the use of the drug as a remedy against Covid-19.

 

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If there was a time to use POFMA to prevent actual damage and death, it is against those promoting falsehoods about Covid-19, vaccines, unverifiable alternative treatments etc and not against imagined and inflated threats. This should have been done months ago.

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