Lim Swee Peng, 52 (left) apologising to Ernest Tan, 44 (right), Jerry Kee, 36 (second from right) while Bukit Tambun assemblyman Goh Choon Aik looks on during a meet up at a restaurant in Sungai Bakap, Penang on 25 Feb 2020.
NIBONG TEBAL: A 52-year-old man has apologised for spreading rumours alleging three restaurants had positive Covid-19 cases, causing their business to plunge.
Lim Swee Peng apologised to the restaurants, their neighbours, and the community for creating two posts on Facebook with photos of the restaurants attached.
As the restaurants selling duck rice, vegetable dumplings (chai kuih) and dumpling noodles have operated for generations and are well known among the local community, the post quickly went viral over social media before he took it down.