China News Service, August 29. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination center in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, found impurities in a batch of Modena vaccines on the 28th, and the batch number of the vaccine is the same as the batch number previously stopped by the central government. different.

The Okinawa Prefecture government decided to suspend vaccination at this vaccination station.

Data map: On August 16, local time, Tokyo Dome Stadium in Japan became the new crown vaccination center, and people came to get vaccinated in an orderly manner.

  According to information from the Okinawa Prefecture Government, at about 15:00 on August 28, at a large vaccination center in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, a pharmacist found black or pink impurities in multiple vaccine vials or syringes containing vaccines.

  These vaccines all belong to the same batch number, but they are different from the three batch numbers that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan previously stopped using because of impurities.

  In view of the successive discoveries of impurities in the Modena vaccine, the Okinawa Prefecture government decided to stop vaccination midway and suspend vaccination at the vaccination station on the 29th.

  According to the report, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the supply of vaccines in Japan, will analyze the above-mentioned vaccines to verify whether impurities have been mixed in the production process, and discuss follow-up measures with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

  According to previous reports, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said on the 26th that multiple vaccination sites reported foreign bodies in unused Modena vaccine, and the government decided to suspend the use of 1.63 million doses of the vaccine.