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- by admin TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked US drugmaker Pfizer on Saturday (April 17) to provide additional supplies of Covid-19 vaccine to Japan this year, Nikkei reported. Pfizer confirmed in an email that Pfizer chief executive officer Albert Bourla met with Suga virtually to discuss vaccine supply on the last day of Suga’s three-day visit to Washington. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is the only one approved in Japan. Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported earlier that Suga asked Pfizer to provide more vaccine doses. Inoculations of Japan’s sizable elderly population began on Monday, but some experts cautioned that...
