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A clip from President Trump’s Fox News interview was posted to his Facebook page
Facebook says it has removed a post from US President Donald Trump’s page because it contained false claims about the coronavirus.
The clip was from an interview the president gave to Fox News earlier on Wednesday in which he said children were “almost immune” to Covid-19.
Facebook said the post violated its rules around “harmful Covid misinformation”.
It is not the first time Facebook has struck content from Mr Trump’s page.
A Facebook spokesperson told US media on Wednesday evening: “This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation.”
What did Trump say in his TV interview?
Speaking by telephone to morning show Fox and Friends on Wednesday, Mr Trump argued it was time for all schools nationwide to reopen.
He said: “If you look at children, children are almost – and I would almost say definitely – almost immune from this disease.
“So few, they’ve got stronger, hard to believe, I don’t know how you feel about it, but they’ve got much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this.
“And they don’t have a problem, they just don’t have a problem.”
He also said of coronavirus: “This thing’s going away. It will go away like things go away.”