A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
The Hill: Iran returns donated COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in US
Iran has returned 820,000 donated COVID-19 doses because they were manufactured in the United States.
The doses were among roughly a million of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine donated to the country by Poland, according to The Associated Press, which cited state media.
“But when the vaccines arrived in Iran, we found out that 820,000 doses of them which were imported from Poland were from the United States,” Mohammad Hashemi, an official in Iran’s Health Ministry, said, the AP reported.
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Update #1: Iran returns donated vaccines because they were made in US (AP)
Update #2: Iran returns ‘US-made’ donated COVID vaccines to Poland (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: According to John Hopkins, 135,000 Iranians have died from Covid (link here).
Source: Iran Returns 825,000 Donated Covid-19 Vaccines Because They Were Made in US
Category: Covid-19
