Japan has decided to suspend the use of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. In some doses, foreign substances were found.
The agency writes about it Kyodo… The decision was taken by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., which is responsible for the sale and distribution of the drug.
The Ministry of Health said that data on foreign substances began to come to them from various vaccination centers.
As a precaution, it was decided to stop using 1.63 million doses. They intend to study the discovered substances.
In turn, the American manufacturing company promised to start an investigation into this case.
The agency notes that this happened amid an outbreak in the country after the Tokyo Olympics. The authorities intend to extend the state of emergency to eight more prefectures.
Over the past day, 22 thousand new cases of the disease have been recorded in Japan. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 1.3 million people have been infected in the country, of which 1.1 million have recovered and 15.6 thousand have died.
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