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A medical staff gets a vaccine against Covid-19 coronavirus at the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in New Taipei City March 22, 2021. AFP pic
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TAIPEI, June 18 ― A further 240,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses from Moderna Inc will arrive in Taiwan this afternoon, Deputy Minister of the Interior Chen Tsung-yen said, boosting the island s slow vaccination programme.
Only around 5 per cent of Taiwan s 23.5 million people have received at least one shot so far, with orders delayed by global shortages as the island deals with a spike in domestic infections.
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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 286 new local cases of COVID-19 and 24 deaths.
The local cases are 141 males and 145 females, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a daily news briefing in Taipei.
This week’s total case number seems to have slightly decreased compared with last week’s total, but has remained relatively level, Chen said.
Previous centers of the local outbreak recorded the largest number of new cases, with 120 in New Taipei City, 56 in Miaoli County and 49 in Taipei, center data showed.
Taoyuan had 19 new cases, Hsinchu County