Japan suspends 1.63M doses of Moderna over contamination

Japan is suspending usage of astir 1.63 cardinal doses of Moderna vaccine aft contamination was recovered successful immoderate unused vials.

The wellness ministry said the contamination was reported astatine aggregate vaccination sites.

Some doses whitethorn person been administered but nary adverse wellness effects person been reported.

The doses were produced successful Spain.

The Japanese distributor Takeda Pharmaceutical suspended the doses manufactured successful the aforesaid accumulation enactment arsenic a precaution and asked Moderna to analyse the problem.

The suspension raises the imaginable of proviso problems successful Japan, which is relying connected 3 foreign-developed vaccines for its COVID-19 inoculation campaign.