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A Japanese health ministry panel on April 27 agreed to incorporate Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid into Japan’s free emergency inoculation program for assumed use for the first to third inoculations. The jab had won regulatory approval earlier this month. Under…
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