China News Service, September 1 According to Japanese media reports, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, announced on August 31 that a black foreign body was found in vaccine bottles produced by Modena in the United States at a large-scale vaccination site for the new crown vaccine established in the county.
Moreover, this batch of vaccine is different from the vaccine batch that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare previously announced that there may be foreign body contamination.
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According to the Japanese "Asahi Shimbun" report, at 2 pm on August 31, at a new crown vaccination site in Kokita District, Yokohama City, a pharmacist was trying to transfer the vaccine liquid from the bottle to the syringe and found that there was black in it. foreign body.
The report also said that as of August 30, approximately 3,800 people had been vaccinated with the same batch of Modena vaccine.
So far, the vaccine has not been found to cause any health hazards.
On August 28, a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination center in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, also found impurities in a batch of Modena vaccines, and the county has decided to stop vaccination midway.
On August 26, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan stated 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.