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‘Infodemic’ risks jeopardising virus vaccines


November 29, 2020

PARIS: As early as February, with the global pandemic spreading fast, the World Health Organisation issued a warning about an “infodemic”, a wave of fake news and misinformation about the deadly new disease on social media. Now with hopes hanging on Covid-19 vaccines, the WHO and experts are warning those same phenomena may jeopardise roll-out of immunisation programmes meant to …

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