EU Report Accuses Russia, China of Sowing Mistrust in Western Vaccines

EU Report Accuses Russia, China of Sowing Mistrust in Western Vaccines
A health worker displays a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Robert Ballanger hospita in Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris, France, on Jan.6, 2021. Christophe Archambault/Pool Photo via AP
Reuters
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BRUSSELS—Russian and Chinese media are systematically seeking to sow mistrust in Western COVID-19 vaccines in their latest disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing the West, a European report said on Wednesday.

From December to April, the two countries’ state media outlets pushed fake news online in multiple languages sensationalizing vaccine safety concerns, making unfounded links between jabs and deaths in Europe and promoting Russian and Chinese vaccines as superior, the EU study said.