THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 13, 2021 at 18:22 JST
A PCR test shows whether the novel coronavirus sampled is a variant. (Provided by the Ibaraki prefectural institute for health)
About 90 percent of people fully inoculated by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are well protected from variants of the novel coronavirus, having produced antibodies stimulated to better fight them off, Japanese researchers said on May 12. [Read More]
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