The Criminal Manipulation in Government Medical Statistics During COVID-19 Crisis: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Manipulating government medical data is one of the intentional crimes that occur on medical informational
data, whether by intentionally introducing misleading and wrong information or deleting and amending
the data to change the truth. Despite the existence of laws to criminalize these acts, whether in Iraqi law
or comparative law in general, in addition to the international conventions that oblige countries to develop
legal texts to combat cybercrimes. Therefore, there are problems related to the activation of texts associated
with manipulating government medical data, especially data on infection with Coronavirus. Providing some
countries with misleading or incorrect information that does not reflect the current reality must be put to an
end, especially since this disease is a fatal and dangerous disease that transmits very quickly and must be
accurately determined without any tampering with the governmental medical data.