‘Baseless, false’ claims: 5G trials not related to surge in COVID-19 cases in India, says dept of telecommunications

Assertion from the DoT got here after the Mobile Operators’ Affiliation of India (COAI) dismissed these rumours as unsubstantiated and unverified claims final week.

Claims linking the usage of 5G expertise with the unfold of COVID-19 have been doing rounds, and so, the Division of Telecommunications (DoT) has now issued an announcement asserting that these two phenomena should not linked in any respect. It additionally urged individuals to not be influenced by such false and baseless claims that flow into over social media platforms. The official assertion additionally said that these claims, which state that trials or networks utilizing 5G cell towers are the rationale behind the second wave of COVID-19 in India, haven’t any scientific foundation.

The division additionally clarified that nowhere in India had the testing of 5G community begun but, which rendered the claims linking the expertise with the latest surge in circumstances “baseless”.

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Within the assertion, the division stated that the non-ionizing Radio frequencies that cell towers emitted had “very minuscule energy” they usually weren’t able to harming any residing cells, together with people. It additional said that the norms prescribed by the DoT to restrict the publicity for Radio Frequency Area or Base Station Emissions had been 10 instances extra stringent than even the security limits that the Worldwide Fee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Safety (ICNIRP) prescribed and the WHO beneficial.

The division additionally stated that the DoT had put in place a well-structured course of to make sure that the telecom service suppliers adopted the norms it prescribed. Even so, if any citizen had any apprehension relating to these emissions, they may request EMF measurement/testing on the Tarang Sanchar portal, it asserted.

Assertion from the DoT got here after the Mobile Operators’ Affiliation of India (COAI) dismissed these rumours as unsubstantiated and unverified claims final week, after it got here throughout a number of messages on social media linking 5G trials with COVID-19 unfold.