The media outlet reports via Facebook groups and fake users that 11 citizens and 27 servicemen with coronavirus symptoms have been taken to Stepanakert Central Hospital.
The Information Checking Center informs about this.
The news of the same content was still circulated on Facebook on 5 March by a fake page, which is on behalf of Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan but managed by Azerbaijan. Both the rumor and Bako Sahakyan’s official Facebook page were denied.
However, as new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Armenia, disinformation has begun to circulate again.
The Information Checking Center also contacted Artsakh Minister of Health Araiyk Baghryan, who also denied the rumor, saying that there was no case of virus penetration in Artsakh and all necessary preventive measures were being implemented.
