Takeda Pharmaceutical said on August 26 that Japanese regulators have granted approval for its updated COVID-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid tailored to the XFG Omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2. The green light comes two months after Takeda filed the updated recombinant protein vaccine…
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