{"id":7236,"date":"2021-05-22T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=7236"},"modified":"2021-05-22T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T09:17:14","slug":"centre-calls-for-removal-of-references-to-indian-covid-variant-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/05\/22\/centre-calls-for-removal-of-references-to-indian-covid-variant-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Calls for Removal of References to &#8216;Indian Covid Variant&#8217; on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked all social media platforms to immediately remove all content that refers to or implies &#8220;Indian variant&#8221; of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an advisory to social media platforms, MEIT said this is in line with earlier advisories to curb fake news, misinformation concerning coronavirus on platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry said it has come to its notice that a false statement is being circulated online which implies that an &#8220;Indian variant&#8221; of coronavirus is spreading across the countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is completely false. There is no such variant of Covid 19 scientifically called as such by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO has not associated the term &#8220;Indian variant&#8221; with the B1617 variant of the coronavirus in any of its reports&#8221;, the Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has already been clarified by the Health Ministry on May 12 and now social media platforms have been asked to remove all contents which refers to an &#8220;Indian variant&#8221; of Covid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked all social media platforms to immediately remove all content that refers to or implies &#8220;Indian variant&#8221; of coronavirus. In an advisory to social media platforms, MEIT said this is in line with earlier advisories to curb fake news, misinformation concerning coronavirus on platforms. The Ministry said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}