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Japan to give more COVID vaccine doses to Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam Japan will donate 1 million additional doses of a COVID-19 vaccine each to Taiwan, Indonesia and Vietnam later this week, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday. The provision of Britain's AstraZeneca Plc vaccine manufactured in Japan under license to Taiwan from Thursday comes on top of a total of some 2.37 million shots already delivered to the self-ruled island in two batches since early June. Photo shows vials of COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford. (Photo courtesy of Astra...

Japan will donate 1 million coronavirus vaccine shots each to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand starting next week, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi says

The Sri Lankan government said it has asked the Japanese government to provide COVID-19 vaccine and has received a "positive response."

The Japanese government is preparing to provide COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam as the country struggles to procure enough doses for its citizens amid a spike in coronavirus infections, a lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party says.

Indonesia declares suspended AstraZeneca vaccine batch safe to use The Indonesian government declared Thursday that a batch of AstraZeneca Plc's coronavirus vaccine, suspended earlier this month following the death of a 22-year-old man a day after his inoculation with the vaccine, is safe to use. In a press statement, the Drug and Food Monitoring Agency concluded that the vaccine batch "meets quality requirements and is safe to use." Photo shows bottles of COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford. (Photo courtesy of AstraZeneca)(Kyodo) The conclusion, the age...