Tokyo and Taipei, May 28 (CNA) Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Friday confirmed an earlier media report that the country is considering providing excess COVID-19 vaccines to other countries and regions, including Taiwan.
Taipei, May 28 (CNA) About 60 percent of Taiwan's population may receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by October, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said at a legislative hearing Friday.
Taipei, May 28 (CNA) A 36-year-old Taiwanese man from New Taipei has died just one day after testing positive for COVID-19, making him possibly the youngest victim in Taiwan to die from the virus if it is confirmed that it was the cause of death.
Follow RT on Taiwan’s minister of health has vowed that at least 60% of the country’s population will have received one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by October, but admitted the current infection level does not look good.
Speaking on Friday, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told a daily news briefing that the healthcare situation in Taiwan was not improving in the way that had been hoped.
“This is not a very good situation… We are not seeing a downward trend,” Chen said, noting that daily infection levels had remained above 400 cases for the last week.
He said that there were still
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An AstraZeneca spokeswoman said it was up to Japan how the doses were used. Reuters pic
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TOKYO, May 28 Japan said today it would consider sharing Covid-19 vaccines with other countries as a ruling party panel urged that part of its stock of AstraZeneca Plc doses be provided to Taiwan, which hailed the move and urged a swift decision.
Taiwan is battling a spike in domestic infections and has vaccinated only about 1 per cent of its people, while Japan has secured more than 400 million doses, or double what its adult population needs.