A person in Texas was arrested for falsely claiming in a social media post to be infected with the coronavirus, prosecutors said Monday.
The unidentified person allegedly said over the weekend that they tested positive for the virus at Tyler County Hospital, according to the Tyler County District Attorney’s Office.
In a separate Facebook post, the DA’s office warned that one can be charged with a crime for “knowingly communicating, initiating, or circulating a false report/false alarm of COVID-19 that one knows is false or baseless.”
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