Prime Minister Modi announced the national lockdown in his second address to the country regarding the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic on the 24th of March.
Self-proclaimed fact-checker AltNews founder Pratik Sinha and ThePrint chief Shekhar Gupta today retweeted a tweet from a fake account, thereby spreading misinformation to millions amidst coronavirus outbreak.
While not following the lockdown can land one in jail for 6 months, anybody spreading rumours about the Wuhan Coronavirus spread can also land in jail for 6 months.
Congress leader Harjit Bhatti, who is a doctor by qualification, on Monday took to Twitter to claim that healthcare workers in Assam Medical College are "forced" to cover themselves in plastic bags.
A student of Presidency University, Kolkata has alleged that she was asked by a member of the SFI to 'sleep with' people associated with the BJP on the campus so that she could then play the victim card when SFI would come to 'rescue' her.
Despite the fact that he was not trained as a medical doctor and had no global health management experience, Tedros was appointed as the WHO chief in 2017.