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The Japanese government on March 8 started the rollout of Pfizer’s Omicron-tailored COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five through 11 for booster use under its emergency inoculation program. The rollout comes immediately after the Health Sciences Council’s (HSC) vaccine committee…
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