Japan’s audit board has requested the well being ministry present supporting documentation for contracts with U.S and British coronavirus vaccine producers after discovering a weak foundation for ordering a complete of 882 million doses in fiscal 2020 and 2021.
The report launched Wednesday by the Board of Audit of Japan additionally discovered that not less than 30 % of the doses had been both canceled or disposed of after expiring.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare spent a complete of 4.20 trillion yen ($32 billion) within the two years, with the price of securing vaccines accounting for two.40 trillion yen of the quantity.
In contracts signed between October 2020 and March 2022, Japan ordered 399 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc., 213 million doses from Moderna Inc., 120 million doses from Astra Zeneca Plc, and 150 million doses from Novavax Inc.
But solely round 296 million doses of Pfizer, 83.12 million doses of Moderna, 120,000 doses of AstraZeneca and 290,000 doses of Novavax had been administered as of the top of January.
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