TOKYO — A 94-year-old man has died of subarachnoid hemorrhage a day after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. biotech firm Moderna, Inc., the health ministry announced Wednesday.
It is the first reported death involving a recipient of the Moderna vaccine in Japan.
Whether there was a causal relationship between the death and the vaccine is “under assessment,” according to the ministry.
The ministry also reported 159 new deaths among men and women, from those in their 20s to centenarians, who had been inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced these cases, which were reported to the ministry …
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