Early this month, a person claimed in a Facebook post that his cousin, a renowned doctor at a private hospital in Singapore, had suffered a stroke as a result of getting a Covid-19 vaccine.
That post went viral, including on WhatsApp and social media chats, prompting Mount Elizabeth Hospital to issue a clarification on April 4. We wish to clarify that the allegations in the post are untrue. The doctor s family has also confirmed that the writer is not related to them and has written to Facebook to have the post removed, the hospital said. You can help us stem the circulation of false information by not sharing the post, and deleting it if you have already done so.
Photo Image from The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, April 17 (dpa): Singapore s Health Ministry has invoked a fake news law to force an opposition party to publish corrections to Facebook posts implying coronavirus vaccinations can lead to stroke or death.
The ministry said earlier this week that it instructed the government office responsible for implementing the 2019 Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act to issue correction directions to the Singapore People s Party (SPP) and leader Goh Meng Seng.
The order covered Goh s and the SPP s posts implying that Covid-19 vaccination had caused or substantially contributed to a case of stroke and the separate death of an 81-year-old.
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SINGAPORE: Facebook on Friday (Apr 16) said it does not allow false claims on its platform that could lead to the rejection of COVID-19 vaccines, and will remove such posts.
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SINGAPORE: The cause of an 81-year-old man’s death was ischaemic heart disease and not because of COVID-19 vaccination complications, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday (Apr 15).
The Health Sciences Authority’s (HSA) Forensic Medicine Division reported that post-mortem, there was “no evidence of acute anaphylaxis or an allergic reaction at the injection site of the COVID-19 vaccine”, the Health Ministry added in a press release.
April 15, 2021
The Pofma correction orders were directed at the Facebook pages of Goh Meng Seng People s Power Party and Goh Meng Seng (Satu Singapura) as well as at the Singapore Uncensored website.
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SINGAPORE - The Republic s fake news law was invoked after unsubstantiated claims about adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines were posted on Facebook and published online by a website.
In a statement on Thursday (April 15), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said the Health Minister had instructed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) Office to issue the correction directions.
They were directed at the Facebook pages of Goh Meng Seng People s Power Party and Goh Meng Seng (Satu Singapura), as well as at the Singapore Uncensored website.