Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailDisinformation about the pandemic spread is costing lives and hampering the fight against the disease, MPs warned today. The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said that as the country where the outbreak started, China should have played a central role in collecting data on its spread. MPs also accused Iran and Russia of spreading fake news about Covid-19. “Such deliberate misleading of the WHO and scientists in other countries obscured analysis in the critical early stages of the pandemic,” the committee says. (Image: China News Service via Getty Ima)“Disinformation about Covid-19 has already cost lives.

Source: Daily Mirror April 05, 2020 23:02 UTC