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India for social media: Remove content with the term "Indian variant"
Modi's government is trying to fend off criticism of its treatment of the plague, arguing that the nickname given to the mutation that has developed in the country is misleading.
In recent weeks, authorities have also demanded the removal of critical posts against the prime minister, with the death toll continuing to climb by more than 4,000 a day.
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Saturday, 22 May 2021, 18:17 Updated: Sunday, 23 May 2021, 09:05
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Suffers from a sharp decline in popularity.
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The Government of India has instructed social media to remove content that includes the term “Indian variant” of the corona virus. The B.1.617 variant was first spotted in India last year, and its appearance has been linked to the severe wave that has hit the country in recent months. It has spread to more than 40 other countries, but the government in New Delhi is sensitive to its accusations of mismanagement of the new outbreak.
"We have learned that a false claim has been spread on the net and implies that the 'Indian variant' of the corona is spreading around the world. This is completely untrue," read a letter sent on Friday by the Ministry of Electronics and Technology to social media. The ministry cited previous calls to reduce "false news and misinformation" about the epidemic on social media as a basis for teaching.
The ministry claims that the World Health Organization has not linked the country-specific variant. Last week he announced that the variant is a source of "global concern"And some countries have imposed severe restrictions on the arrival of passengers from India since the first appearance of the variant.
Various variants of the corona virus have been given names based on the countries where they were first discovered, such as those that appeared in Britain, Brazil and South Africa.
The Government of India itself regularly uses the term "British variant" to describe the mutation that spread from Britain to India.
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The nationalist Hindu government of Narendra Modi has come under fire for managing the latest wave of the epidemic, given the severe shortage of oxygen, vaccines, hospital beds and life-saving drugs.
Last month, the government ordered Twitter and Facebook to remove dozens of posts criticizing Moody, whose popularity is at its worst low since coming to power in 2014.
On Saturday, India reported 257,000 new cases and 4,194 deaths from the virus in 24 hours, data that raised the overall count to 26.2 million cases and 295,525 deaths since the outbreak of the plague.
About half of the number of victims have been recorded since the end of March, when new outbreaks began to hit the country where about 1.4 billion people live.
At the same time, the capital New Delhi has stopped giving corona vaccines to those aged 45 and under due to lack of doses.
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