GOOD INTENTIONS: Several corporations and religious groups have contacted the CECC to help procure jabs, with one group saying it would donate 500,000 shotsBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
More than 42,000 people on Friday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that 500 local clinics would become vaccination centers by next month, while 1,000 would offer jabs by August.
The CECC on Thursday distributed 150,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to local governments, which provided them to frontline essential workers in Taipei and New Taipei City, as well as frontline healthcare professionals in other areas.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that people were much more enthusiastic to be vaccinated on Friday than before, as 42,920
Taipei, May 27 (CNA) Terry Gou (郭台銘), founder of manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., has offered to procure COVID-19 vaccines from abroad for Taiwan, a top aide to the businessman confirmed Thursday, following reports implying the tycoon has already been in talks with a Chinese pharmaceutical company.
2021/05/27 15:33 Foxconn Technology founder Terry Gou Foxconn Technology founder Terry Gou (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou (郭台銘) wants to buy 10 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from overseas to distribute in Taiwan, reports said Thursday (May 27). With the recent COVID-19 outbreak causing hundreds of local transmissions per day, the country’s need for more vaccines has been brought to the public s attention. Gou and his Yonglin Foundation want to split the cost of the vaccines with Foxconn Technology 50-50. Senior Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Chairman Guo Guangchang (郭廣昌) have also been involved in the negotiations, CNA reported.
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