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Japan OKs 1st Homemade COVID Jab, but No Supply Planned; Daiichi to Pursue XBB.1 Update
Japan approved Daiichi Sankyo’s Daichirona, its first domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, for booster use on August 2. However, the company says it does not plan to supply this jab, which is based on the original coronavirus strain, and will instead…
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