SINGAPORE - Opposition party chief Goh Meng Seng has been issued a correction direction under Singapore's fake news law for false claims about the Covid-19 variant Omicron.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said late on Friday night (Dec 3) that it has instructed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma) Office to issue the correction direction to Mr Goh, who is People's Power Party chief.
This means that he is required to publish the correction notice on each Facebook post containing the falsehoods.
Mr Goh had posted a video on Nov 27 on at least two Facebook accounts where he claimed that HIV and the virus that causes Covid-19 can combine in a fully vaccinated patient to become airborne HIV that is vaccine resistant.
He also claimed that the Omicron variant is most likely the result of combining HIV and the virus that causes Covid-19, which is known as Sars-CoV-2, and that this had happened before June 4 this year.
Mr Goh also said that current vaccines are "totally useless" against the Omicron variant.
MOH countered these false claims and said they were without scientific basis.
"Genetic recombination of viruses is known to occur only in genetically related viruses. The HIV and Sars-CoV-2 viruses are not related, and it is implausible in biological terms that these viruses can undergo genetic recombination," the ministry said.
MOH added that Mr Goh's claim about the possibility of HIV being transmissible by droplets in the air is unfounded.
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