The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 364 new domestic cases of COVID-19, 219 backlogged cases and 17 deaths, while more than 1 million vaccine doses donated by Japan are to arrive today.
Last week, Japan announced a plan to share vaccines with Taiwan and today, 1.24 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are to arrive in Taiwan, the Chinese-language Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) reported yesterday, citing a report by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and an anonymous source in Tokyo.
Of the new local cases, 186 are male and 178 female, aged under five to over 90,
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By Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva
I have been critical of the questionable activities of the GMOA hierarchy for quite some time. (See my article “Open Letter to Dr. Padeniya” in the Ceylon Daily News on 11.5.2017). However, I am writing now in defence of their recent action in vaccinating the parents and immediate family members of the doctors, who have been in the forefront of the battle against the pandemic. I have also said in the past that doctors are the products of this society (see “Doctors Are Products of This Society” in
The Island 21.3.2017). As such, despite being members of a noble profession, it is unrealistic to expect doctors to be vastly different from others at a comparable level in a very corrupt society.
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