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Japan to Receive 50 Million Doses of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines via Takeda
The Japanese government on October 29 signed off on a three-way deal with Takeda Pharmaceutical and Moderna to purchase 50 million doses of the US company’s COVID-19 vaccine, which would cover 25 million people, starting in the first half of…
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