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UK and the Republic of Korea will share over 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses with each other to enhance rollout of life-saving jabs.
Ministers are announcing action to prevent medicines being prescribed unnecessarily, following a new review led by the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England.
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