UPDATE 3-Taiwan firms up AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, finds new UK variant Reuters 12/30/2020
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TAIPEI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan has agreed to buy almost 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, including 10 million from AstraZeneca Plc, the government said on Wednesday, adding that it had confirmed the island s first case of the new British variant of the disease.
Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control in the community thanks to early and effective prevention and strict quarantine of all arrivals, with imported cases accounting for almost all of its tally of 798 cases, including seven deaths.
The island s Central Epidemic Command Centre said apart from AstraZeneca, it had agreed to buy 4.76 million doses from global vaccine programme COVAX and was in talks with another company it did not identify.
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TAIPEI, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Taiwan has agreed to buy almost 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, including 10 million from AstraZeneca Plc, the government said on Wednesday.
The vaccines will arrive by March at the earliest, the Central Epidemic Command Centre said in a statement. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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