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Govt Plans Switch to 6-Dose Syringes for Elderly “Sometime in May”: Kono
The Japanese government plans to switch to special syringes that can extract six doses from a single vial of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in its elderly inoculation program from “sometime in May,” vaccination campaign minister Taro Kono said on March 26.…
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