The Ministry of Public Health dismissed the cancellation of new year celebrations in Thailand due to the purported spread of a new Covid-19 variant, XBC, as fake news. No unusual outbreaks or dangerous variants have been reported.
A Thai Facebook user recently reported that the government was planning to cancel all new year holiday events due to the spread of the new Deltacron XBC variant. The user stated that Deltacron XBC spreads more easily and quickly than the previous variants and is three times more dangerous than others.
The fake news sharer also added that many Thai people had been infected with deltacron XBC. The post included statistical and random studies that were supposedly published by Chulalongkorn University to make the information reliable.
Many netizens shared the messages, causing many people to panic about another outbreak…
