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Japan to Roll Out Moderna’s BA.4/5 Booster from Nov. 28
The Japanese government will add Moderna’s bivalent vaccine adapted to the BA.4/BA.5 Omicron variants to its COVID-19 booster program, effective November 28, according to a health ministry notification.In the notification dated November 8, the ministry also said that Novavax’s COVID-19…
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