Vaccination expanded in 2 Pingtung villages to stop variant virus
06/27/2021 02:30 PM
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County Magistrate Pan Meng-an (left) chats with residents waiting to receive a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Pingtung County government
Taipei, June 27 (CNA) The Pingtung County government on Sunday is expanding its COVID-19 vaccination program in two villages in Fangshan Township that have seen six cases of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 to stop the virus from spreading.
Adults over the age of 17 who are registered residents of Shanyu and Fenggang villages and test negative for the disease are eligible to be vaccinated, the county government said, and inoculations began Sunday.
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[Epoch Times, June 26, 2021](Epoch Times reporters Chen Ting, Li Yan, Zhang Ting, Yan Shujing report) According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, as of Saturday (6 26th) 12:15 noon, globalChinese Communist virus（Wuhan pneumoniaThe total number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 180 million (180,506,924), and the death toll exceeds 3.91 million (3,911,517).
The following is the number of newly confirmed cases and deaths in a single day on June 25 (Friday) (part of the data comes from worldometer):
12,667 confirmed cases and 349 deaths in the United States;
15,374 cases were confirmed in the UK and 18 people died;
Taipei, June 27 (CNA) Taiwan reported 89 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, and confirmed that two more previously reported cases involved the highly infectious Delta variant of the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
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