New Jersey woman allegedly told police as she breathed on them

According to the Hanover Township Police Department, Lea Piazza wouldn’t stop breathing on the New Jersey officers as they were processing her paperwork. Ordinarily, that would be a mere annoyance. And that’s just what it was until the woman told them she had the coronavirus, police said.

When the 28-year-old New Jersey woman crashed her car last week, she grew belligerent and refused to answer questions from officers who believed she might be intoxicated, according to NJ.com.

Back at the police department’s headquarters, she ignored their requests to cover her mouth.

“Oh, by the way,” Piazza allegedly said after coughing on one officer. “I have the coronavirus and now so do you.”

The remark naturally alarmed the department, which contacted health officials and placed the three officers who had dealt with Piazza under selfquarantine after the Thursday incident.

But it was a false alarm, police said Tuesday.

Facebook to provide portal for coronavirus information

Facebook on Wednesday announced a portal that aims to be a one-stop shop for its more than 2.5 billion users to find news and resources about the novel coronavirus, something it said was a significant step in an effort to combat falsehoods and provide accurate information in the face of a fastmoving pandemic. The new coronavirus information center will roll out over the next 24 hours and will be at the top of users’ Facebook feeds, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a media call.

Since the new coronavirus began sweeping the world earlier this year, misinformation has proliferated across social media, including on Facebookowned WhatsApp and Instagram. As government leaders and health officials are racing to contain the global pandemic, that onslaught of misinformation has hindered some of their efforts.