The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.---------- Japan halts use of 1.63 mil. Moderna vaccine doses over contaminationTOKYO - Japan's health ministry said Thursday foreign materials were found in some portions of unused doses of Moderna Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine and the use of around 1.63 million doses manufactured in the same production line has been suspended as a precaution.Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., which is in charge of sales and distribution of the vaccine in the country, said it has yet to see any reports of safety issues. Some of …READ FULL ARTICLE