The police in Leer/Emden provide information in a press release about how they deal with false reports about the corona virus.

Corona virus: Tips for dealing with fake news - The most important thing to start with: False reports are spread particularly via social networks and thus unsettle users. In order to be sure whether a report is true or false, you can obtain information in a variety of ways.

Fake news about the corona virus

Leer district/City of Emden – In connection with the corona virus, many false reports, so-called fake news, have been circulating for several days, which are being spread particularly via social media, such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Many of these false reports also reached the district of Leer and the city of Emden, as can be concluded from some inquiries to the police, which referred to specific false reports.

Coordination with authorities

Information that citizens learn should be compared with the information provided by official institutions.
Official institutions such as the Robert Koch Institute , the Federal Ministry of Health , the Foreign Office and local municipalities such as the Leer district and the city of Emden provide important, up-to-date information on the corona virus.

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Citizen telephone

The city of Emden has set up a citizens' telephone number 04921/87-1818 from Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The citizens' hotline for the Leer district is open from Monday to Thursday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., on Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m .

If in doubt, ask

Citizens should not be unsettled by messages that they receive, for example, as voice messages via WhatsApp and whose original origin they do not know.
If in doubt, you should contact an official institution via internet research or telephone contact to find out whether the information circulating is true or not.

Source: Leer/Emden police station
Article image: Shutterstock / By danielmarin


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