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Myanmar grappling with infodemic published : 25 Dec 2020 at 10:24 1 Be it false claims that drinking liquor or ginger juice will repel Covid-19, or that eating leaves of the neem tree will protect one from it, Facebook user Pa Pa has encountered them all in the varied, virulent strains of misinformation thriving around the pandemic in Myanmar. “Claims that eating a certain number of eggs at specific times or that citing a religious mantra can make you fully recover from the virus are common false news,” recalled Pa Pa, a 30-year-old employee who lives in Yangon. But the strains of misinformation and disinformation in Myanmar have also been adapting to the times, four months into a major Covid-19 outbreak that picked up in August and shows little sign of easing soon in this Southeast Asian country of nearly 55 million people. Now that attention is on the use of new vaccines in North America and Europe, misinformation trends have followed this shi

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