The online rumor that "pregnant women in Meilong seven villages died of premature help" is not true, and those who fabricate rumors are subject to administrative punishment.
According to the news of @ Police-People Through Train-Shanghai Weibo, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau issued a police report on April 18, saying that recently, the false remarks about "pregnant women in Meilong Seven Village died of premature delivery and failed to ask for help" were widely spread on the Internet.
After investigation by the police, an elderly woman did ask for help on March 16th, but the client was sent to the designated hospital in time with the assistance of the neighborhood committee, and gave birth to a pair of children successfully. On April 17th, the police arrested Zhang (female, 36 years old) who fabricated false information. According to Zhang’s account, after hearing that a pregnant woman in the community was sent to hospital because of premature delivery, he invented and fabricated sensational plots such as "massive bleeding of pregnant women", "indifference of government workers" and "one corpse and two lives", which were published in WeChat group, causing a lot of spread. At present, the public security organs have imposed administrative penalties on Zhang’s illegal acts of fictional facts disturbing public order according to law.
The police reminded that the Internet is not a place outside the law. The public security organs will resolutely investigate and deal with illegal and criminal acts that fabricate, spread and spread rumors and disrupt social order. Please ask the public not to spread rumors, believe in rumors or spread rumors, jointly safeguard a healthy and orderly network environment and social order, and contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic with practical actions.


