{"id":36289,"date":"2021-09-02T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/japans-moderna-covid-vaccine-rollout-hit-by-recall-and-contamination-scares"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T05:20:19","slug":"japans-moderna-covid-vaccine-rollout-hit-by-recall-and-contamination-scares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36289","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Moderna Covid vaccine rollout hit by recall and contamination scares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign materials including stainless steel identified in batches of Covid-19 vaccine though no safety or efficacy issues have been reported<\/p>\n<p>The Moderna coronavirus vaccine programme in Japan has been hit by a series of contamination incidents, prompting it to recall 1.63m doses found to contain metal fragments.<\/p>\n<p>Other potential contaminants have been identified in separate batches over the past week but so far no injuries as a result of those vaccines have been reported. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/02\/japans-moderna-covid-vaccine-rollout-hit-by-recall-and-contamination-scares\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign materials including stainless steel identified in batches of Covid-19 vaccine though no safety or efficacy issues have been reportedThe Moderna coronavirus vaccine programme in Japan has been hit by a series of contamination incidents, promptin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1066,88,647,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36290,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36289\/revisions\/36290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}