Reports of COVID-19 outbreak among Vietnamese in Taiwan ‘fake’: CECC


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Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Thursday dismissed as "fake news" several recent social media posts about a lockdown of cities in Taiwan due to a large-scale outbreak of COVID-19 in the Vietnamese communities. The story originated on a propaganda website, known as a content farm, and has since been removed, CECC spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) told CNA. According to the post on the Vietnamese-language website, Taiwan had locked down some of its cities and was busy conducting contact tracing after 250 Vietnamese in the country tested positive for COVID-19, Chuang said, citing some Vietnamese...