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Up to 1.17 Million Vaccine Doses to Be Shipped for HCPs in First Half of March
Japan will distribute up to 1.17 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to prefectures over the first two weeks of March, which will be used to inoculate second-in-line medical professionals, vaccination campaign minister Taro Kono said on February 19. Speaking…
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