Human Rights Watch said that many countries around the world are taking advantage of the spread of the Coruna virus to commit further human rights violations and restrictions on freedoms.
According to a report by the organization, among these countries are Egypt, China, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, and many other countries.
The report showed that government officials in Egypt, Myanmar, India, China, the United States and Zimbabwe - for example - were among the most unresponsive in the world to provide accurate information about the outbreak of the virus.
He added that the authorities in Egypt, China, Myanmar and Ethiopia have arrested, detained or expelled journalists and others, for having expressed their views on the Corona outbreak through social media.
The report indicated that the Egyptian authorities expelled the British Guardian correspondent last month because of a report they prepared, and questioned the official statistics of cases of infection in Egypt, and based the report on unpublished research of Canadian specialists in infectious diseases.
On March 17, the Egyptian authorities decided to close the Guardian newspaper office and withdraw its accreditation, considering that the newspaper did not adhere to the professional rules in the news that was broadcast on the subject of the Corona virus in Egypt, and relied on unreliable sources.
The report also accused the Indian authorities of negligence and of not doing what should be in the face of the disinformation campaigns that spread remarkably in the country, claiming that the Muslim minority is behind the spread of the Corona virus in the country.
It also criticized New Delhi's issuance of orders to reduce the speed of the Internet flow, which reduced access to the necessary information on combating the virus.
And the site "World Meter" announced on Wednesday morning that the number of coronavirus infections worldwide exceeded the barrier of two million, more than 121,000 died, and more than 460 thousand recovered.