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Viral message claiming complete lockdown from June 15 is fake

Updated On: 12 June, 2020 12:00 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent | mid-day online correspondent

Press Information Bureau-s Fact Check team informed citizens that the news is fake and urged them to avoid believing in rumours

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Debunking fake news, PIB urged people to beware of such pictures that are spreading false information. Picture/Twitter PIB Fact Checl

Debunking fake news, PIB urged people to beware of such pictures that are spreading false information. Picture/Twitter PIB Fact Checl

Amid the rising number of coronavirus cases in India, a viral message claiming complete lockdown across the country from June 15 has taken netizens by storm. However, the fact check team of the Press Information Bureau PIB has called the bluff and identified the viral message as a fake news.The fake viral message that circulated on social media was a forward messages stating that the Ministry of Home Affairs is considering of implementing a nationwide lockdown once again after easing restrictions while announcing new guidelines for the fifth phase of the lockdown.

So, what is the claim? A picture has been making rounds of social media claiming complete lockdown starting June 15. The picture which has been circulated widely claimed that besides imposing restrictions on trains and flight services, the Home Ministry is considering implementing complete lockdown across the country from June 15.

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