• Jiji, Kyodo, staff report

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The health ministry has started allowing pharmacies to sell COVID-19 antigen test kits currently used by medical professionals, in an extraordinary step to contain the spread of COVID-19 by detecting infections at an early stage.

The ministry told prefectural governments Monday that pharmacies with pharmacists in attendance will be allowed to sell such kits immediately.

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