Singapore Invokes Fake-News Law to Defend Migrant Workers’ Tests
A healthcare worker collects a nasal swab sample from a migrant worker in Singapore on April 27.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
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Singapore’s government defended its stand on the testing of migrant workers, the biggest cluster of its coronavirus outbreak, issuing five corrective directions under its fake-news law to media outlets and a local graduate club that carried comments by an opposition leader on the topic.
The government is disputing statements by Paul Tambyah, chairman of the Singapore Democratic Party, who spoke Friday at an election forum organized by the National University of Singapore Society, where he said authorities had actively discouraged testing of migrant workers, among other issues.