Explainer-What we know about Japan's contaminated Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

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Japan and Moderna have said no safety issues were identified.

FILE PHOTO: Vial labelled"Moderna coronavirus disease vaccine" placed on displayed Moderna logo is seen in this illustration picture

It suspended the use of lot 3004667 that included those vials and two similarly sized lots - 3004734 and 3004956. A vaccine centre in Gunma prefecture near Tokyo found a tiny, black substance in a vial from lot 3005236. The ministry has not officially identified the particles, pending an investigation by Takeda, Moderna, and its Spanish contract manufacturing partner Rovi. The firms have also yet to comment on what the foreign material is.

By Aug. 8, 991 people had died in Japan after receiving COVID-19 shots from Pfizer/BioNTech, and 11 after receiving Moderna's. No causality has been established between the injections and deaths, according to the health ministry.

 

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