Six Indonesians were arrested for allegedly spreading misinformation online about the deadly Covid-19, police said, as the south-east Asian nation’s confirmed infection cases jumped.
A woman in Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya was arrested on Monday for spreading inaccurate claims on Facebook that a patient was being treated for the virus in the city, police said.
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