A Japanese health ministry panel said Friday it does not currently have enough information to determine whether there is a causal link between the deaths of three men and their inoculations using batches of
Three men aged 38, 30 and 49 died after receiving their second shots in August. The doses they were administered did not belong to the lot number confirmed with the contaminants, but were subject to recall as a precaution as they were manufactured on the same production line at the same time in
The two men in their 30s had no underlying health conditions and both died three days after receiving their second shot. The 49-year-old, who died a day after getting vaccinated, was allergic to buckwheat but had no history of a major disease.
The panel is expected to continue looking into their deaths.
When announcing the recall,
Of the 1.63 million doses, 500,000 shots are believed to have been already administered.
==Kyodo
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