Two die in Japan after shots from suspended Moderna vaccines

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TOKYO: Two people died after receiving Moderna Inc Covid-19 vaccine shots that were among lots later suspended following the discovery of contaminants, Japan’s health ministry said on Saturday.

The men in their 30s died this month within days of receiving their second Moderna doses, the ministry said in a release. Each had a shot from one of three manufacturing lots suspended on Thursday. The causes of death are being investigated.

Japan halted the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide, more than a week after the domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co , received reports of contaminants in some vials.

“At this time, we do not have any evidence that these deaths are caused by the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine,” Moderna and Takeda said in a statement on Saturday. “It is important to conduct a formal investigation to determine whether there is any connection.”

Published in Dawn, August 29th, 2021

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M. Saeed

Aug 29, 2021 01:58pm

The vaccine must have been mishandled after the news of it's contamination and became counter productive.

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Aug 29, 2021 04:23pm

Better safe than sorry amid the rapidly expanding, fastly growing, ever increasing and almost unstoppable Indian-Delta variant of Covid-19, spreading like wild-fires in every nook and corner of the world and causing wide-spread inflections, deaths, devastations and destructions in all countries of the world including but not limited to the U.S., Canada, South America, E.U., Scandinavia, Africa, Central & South Asia, Far, Near & Middle East, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia & New Zealand.

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