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Pfizer’s Bivalent COVID Vaccines Approved for Primary Series in Japan
Pfizer and BioNTech said on August 2 that bivalent Omicron-tailored versions of their COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty are now approved for use in primary immunization in Japan. For this change, the ministry modified the approval for Comirnaty RTU (bivalent: original/Omicron BA.1)…
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