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In a time that calls for international cooperation to fight a common threat, Kremlin mouthpiece Sputnik chooses to spread disinformation about COVID-19.

international resources are focused on containing the COVID-19 outbreak. The virus is spreading fast; hundreds of thousands are ill, thousands are dying. Lives depend on accurate and timely information.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to throw salt in the wound we journalists have about the public’s trust in news.

This edited article by Nan Lwin is from The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar, and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.

“Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France in 1920 due to the Spanish influenza.

Coronavirus fakes.

This week the Strana.ua news site announced that ultra-right groups will be checking people’s documents in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during the corona virus quarantine period.

Pro-Kremlin media and local media in the Russian occupied parts of eastern Ukraine are busy spreading fakes claiming that coronavirus has spread among Ukraine’s military and that is why there will be no Ukrainian military offensive.

​The recent announcement in Kyiv by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff that the government is willing to enter into negotiations with Russia’s proxies controlling parts of the Donbas illustrates how Russia’s subversion of Ukraine resembles the spread of a virus.

“It is about some groundless accusations. In fact, this Russophobic obsession could be expected to fade under the current situation, but it doesn’t seem to be fading," Source: TASS, March 18, 2020 False Disinformation about coronavirus has been spread by Russian state media.