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Vaccines for All People to Be Delivered to Local Govts by October-End: Kono
Japan expects that a sufficient amount of COVID-19 vaccines to cover all citizens who want to get vaccinated would be delivered to local governments across the country by the end of October, inoculation campaign minister Taro Kono said on June…
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