Ayatollah Ali Khamenei s ban concerns vaccines made Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna. (File)
Tehran:
Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are untrustworthy , saying the post violated its rules. Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They re completely untrustworthy. It s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations, said a tweet posted Friday on Khamenei s English-language Twitter account. Given our experience with France s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren t trustworthy either, the Iranian leader added in the tweet with the hashtag #CoronaVaccine.
Twitter later removed the tweet and replaced it with a message that said it was no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules .
Twitter removes Khamenei vaccine tweet for violating rules
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Twitter removes Khamenei vaccine tweet for violating rules
TEHRAN (AFP) - Twitter has removed a tweet by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggesting coronavirus vaccines made in the United States and Britain are untrustworthy , saying the post violated its rules. Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations, said a tweet posted Friday on Khamenei’s English-language Twitter account. Given our experience with France’s HIV-tainted blood supplies, French vaccines aren’t trustworthy either, the Iranian leader added in the tweet with the hashtag #CoronaVaccine.
The manufacturers of two Covid-19 vaccines developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac and Oxford-AstraZeneca filed the first applications Friday for regulatory approval in hard-hit Brazil, officials said. Brazil has the second-highest death toll in the pandemic after the United States, with more than 200,000 people killed by Covid-19.
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A medical worker shows a syringe with the Sinovac Biotech vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a healthcare centre in Yantai, in eastern China’s Shandong province on January 5, 2021. STR / AFP
Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac’s local partner in Brazil applied Friday for emergency authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine, the first to seek regulatory approval in the hard-hit country, officials said.
Federal health regulator Anvisa now has 10 days to respond to the application from the Butantan Institute, a public health center in Sao Paulo that is working with Sinovac to test and produce the CoronaVac vaccine.