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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's Covid-19 vaccination push suffered a blow from widening reports of contamination in supplies of Moderna Inc's vaccine. Here are key aspects of the concerns: When was it first reported? The first contamination was reported to Moderna's local distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical, on Aug 16. That led to the discovery of 39 vials containing foreign material, all from the same lot of 57,000, or about 570,000 doses. On Aug 26, Japan said that, as a precaution, it had halted use of 1.63 million Moderna doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide. It suspended the use of lot 3004667...
