Lord Alan Sugar has been bombarded with criticism for spreading fake coronavirus claims via his Twitter account. The Apprentice host this afternoon (30 April) posted a screenshotted image falsely claiming that the Nobel laureate Dr Tasuka Honjo had declared Covid-19 “not natural” and “made” by China. “In the wake of the pain, economic loss, and unprecedented global suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, I am greatly saddened that my name and that of Kyoto University have been used to spread false accusations and misinformation,” he wrote in a statement.
Numerous Twitter users slammed Sugar for spreading the claims, with some demanding that Twitter shut down his account in response. “Please delete this,” wrote one follower. “It’s fake