A fake document circulating on WhatsApp has claimed to show Portugal s latest plans for lifting its COVID-19 lockdown.
The government of Prime Minister António Costa has said the image is false and has filed a complaint with the public prosecutor. Portugal introduced a national lockdown on January 15, which remains in place.
The misleading file began spreading on social networks on Thursday, including via the popular WhatsApp messaging platform.
An image showed a table of dates with some pandemic restrictions supposedly lifted by May, alongside the official logo of the Portuguese government.
But authorities say the file was a version of their 2020 deconfinement plan, which had been misappropriated and tampered with by third parties.
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