Iran Rejects Report of Not Sending COVID-19 Test Kits to Turkey
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Health Ministry on Thursday rejected a recent report by Turkish media that Tehran has not sent COVID-19 test kits to Turkey.
The test kits have been detailed on a customs declaration on May 6 and gone through all other formalities, Ministry spokesman Kianoosh Jahanpoor said in a tweet.
But they had been delayed due to restrictions in place on flights to Turkey because of the pandemic, he added.
The kits were sent to Turkey a day later, that is on May 7, on a Qatar Airways flight, Jananpoor explained.
On May 8, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran had sent “40,000 advanced Iran-made test kits to #Germany, #Turkey and others.”
On Monday, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency cited “Turkish diplomatic sources” as saying that the country had not taken delivery of any Iranian test kits.