Busi­ness­woman He­len Bhag­wans­ingh and her fam­i­ly have con­demned the spread of a fake news item yes­ter­day, that al­leged that she had test­ed pos­i­tive for the Omi­cron COVID-19 vari­ant.

The re­port was cir­cu­lat­ed by some­one un­known, who used the words "CNC3 Break­ing News" with the hope that the al­le­ga­tion would ap­pear cred­i­ble.

The fake news item was not a prod­uct of CNC3 nor of any oth­er branch of Guardian Me­dia.

The Bhag­wans­ingh fam­i­ly con­firmed to CNC3 that she has not trav­elled re­cent­ly and has not test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

In a me­dia re­lease lat­er on, the com­pa­ny con­demed the fake re­port as “hurt­ful”.

"He­len Bhag­wans­ingh has not left the coun­try since March, 2020, which was at the be­gin­ning of the pan­dem­ic. We as­sure every­one that she is in good health she goes to work, and like some of us work from home as she con­tin­ues to steer the Bhag­wans­ingh’s Group of Com­pa­nies. The Bhag­wans­ingh’s Group of Com­pa­nies urges all cit­i­zens to ver­i­fy facts be­fore cir­cu­lat­ing un­truths and dam­ag­ing the cred­i­bil­i­ty of per­sons and com­pa­nies," the state­ment said.