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This has been shared by Prof Christina Pagel, of University College London:

The other thing is that Japan is being very slow to vaccinate compared to other high income regions – Just over 1% of its population has received one dose of Covid vaccine so far.

This leaves it more exposed to surges from B117 (vaccines work brilliantly against B117). 3/4 pic.twitter.com/P8TaBIXQmL

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India’s Cadila Healthcare has started producing its potential Covid vaccine for which it will seek emergency use authorisation in May or June, its managing director told Reuters, with an aim to make up to 240m doses a year.

“We have just started producing doses,” Sharvil Patel said.

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Source: The Guardian