TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday has received his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in front of cameras at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine as he prepares to visit the United States in April for a summit meeting with President Joe Biden.
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TOKYO – Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo announced Friday it has begun manufacturing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in the country, amid reports of blood clots in people receiving the jab in some European countries.
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TOKYO – A man returning from the Philippines tested positive for the P.3 variant first detected in the Southeast Asian country, the Japanese health ministry reported on Friday.
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MANILA/TOKYO – Award-winning TV and film superstars Coco Martin and Angelica Panganiban have teamed up for the first time on ABS-CBN Star Cinema's much-awaited Filipino romantic comedy “Love or Money” now available for global viewing on iWantTFC.
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TOKYO – The Japanese government will give 4.5 billion yen emergency grant aid through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to the Philippines and 24 other nations in the Asia-Pacific region to support their COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday.
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