Residents of Taipei and New Taipei City aged 25 to 44 are most likely to join group tours to Palau, which has requested a “travel bubble” with Taiwan, a survey by online travel platform KKday showed on Monday.
The platform began selling package tours to the Micronesian country on Wednesday last week, despite the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) having yet to finalize the tours and announce the details.
As of yesterday, all of the tours to Palau were sold out.
An analysis of nearly 1,000 people booking the tours showed that more than 80 percent are aged 25 to 44, with most
Scientific data do not show a direct link between the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices convener Lee Ping-ing (李秉穎) said yesterday.
Lee’s remarks comes amid concern over the vaccine’s safety, as several European nations have suspended its rollout due to reports of blood clots in some recipients.
Taiwan is expected to soon approve the drug and begin its COVID-19 vaccination program.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) last week said that it was conducting a survey of hospitals to gauge the willingness of front-line healthcare workers, who are in
AstraZeneca vaccine doses. Photo courtesy of Anadolu Agency
Taipei, March 16 (CNA) Only a third of medical workers at hospitals that treat COVID-19 patients in Taiwan are willing to get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, according to preliminary results of a Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) survey.
About 90 percent of medical personnel at those hospitals, or about 183,000 people, have responded to the survey so far, and about 32.7 percent of them, or 59,984, said they were willing to get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Broken down by category, around 43 percent of medical workers and other frontline personnel who directly work with COVID-19 patients or those suspected of having the disease were willing to get the vaccine, CECC spokesperson Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said at a press briefing Tuesday.
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterScientific data do not show a direct link between the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clots, Centers for Disease Control （CDC） Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices convener Lee Ping-ing （李秉穎） said yesterday.