Japan PM Suga calls for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial approvals

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday the government needs to speed up the process of approving clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines at a time when Japanese drugmakers have lost ground to foreign rivals."We need to consider revising the system, to approve (trials) more quickly," Suga said at a House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting.In Japan, Shionogi & Co. and several other companies have been developing coronavirus vaccines, but large-scale clinical studies have been a major hurdle to getting domestic vaccines approved and on the market.In order to gain approval, a vaccine n…READ FULL ARTICLE