A third person in
"The causal relationship between the vaccination and the death is unknown," it said.
The shot, the ministry said, came from one of three batches containing some 1.6 million doses of the
Two days after the batches were recalled, the ministry announced there had been two deaths linked to the doses in August, one reported prior to the recall and one afterward.
In response to the two deaths,
The companies said that following a health assessment they concluded that "the rare presence of stainless steel particles in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine does not pose an undue risk to patient safety and it does not adversely affect the benefit/risk profile of the product."
"There is no evidence that the two tragic deaths following administration of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine ... were in any way related to administration of the vaccine," they said. "The relationship is currently considered to be coincidental."
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