Germany’s health ministry has demanded that pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson provide more doses of its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine for the month of July following a shortfall of doses expected in June after millions of vaccine shots were discarded due to possible contamination concerns.
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told J&J to discard several batches of its Janssen vaccine that was manufactured at a Baltimore facility operated by Emergent BioSolutions. Reports citing anonymous sources said that upwards of 60 million doses of the vaccine are now being discarded, although both J&J and the FDA declined to comment on the matter in emails to The Epoch Times.
