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Johnson & Johnson seeks vaccine approval in Japan
May 24, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Syringes filled with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are shown, on May 13, 2021, at a mobile vaccination site at the Greater Bethel Church in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) TOKYO (Kyodo) Johnson & Johnson said Monday one of its units has filed for Japanese health ministry approval of the major U.S. pharmaceutical company s novel coronavirus vaccine. If approved, Johnson & Johnson said its vaccine could be delivered to Japan in early 2022, becoming the fourth vaccine in the country s fight against COVID-19. According to the unit, Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., its Phase 1 study results from 250 healthy people between the ages of 20 and 55 and those aged 65 or older in Japan showed that the one-shot vaccine did not pose safety risks.
Understanding the numbers
Reported COVID-19 cases in Florida surged at the beginning of 2021, with most of January reporting more than 10,000 cases a day. And, the state didn t see percent positivity below 5 percent the entire month, with many daily reports in the double digits.
Since Feb. 4, however, daily reported COVID-19 cases in Florida have remained under 10,000.
The
highest single-day case number Florida has reported so far is 19,816 for Jan. 6. The report released on Jan. 2 of 31,518 newly-reported cases is higher, but that report combined updates for Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
The
738, confirmed on Sept. 28.
On Oct. 30, Florida became the third state to cross the 800,000 reported COVID-19 cases mark. Then, on Dec. 1, Florida became the third state to surpass 1 million confirmed cases. On March 20,