Red Cross urges halt to cyberattacks on healthcare sector amid COVID-19


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 May 2020

FILE PHOTO: Volunteers of the French Red Cross patrol during a lockdown imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Paris, France, April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

(Reuters) - The Red Cross called for an end to cyberattacks on healthcare and medical research facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, in a letter published Tuesday and signed by a group of political and business figures.

Such attacks endanger human lives and governments must take "immediate and decisive action" to stop them, the letter stated.

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