BANGKOK, June 13 Thailand is not blocking exports of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a government representative said, after Taiwan said Thailand was keeping for itself doses of the vaccine that it is producing. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday Taiwan had ordered 10 million doses from.
Muslim and Buddhist people clean the compound of a mosque as they prepare for it to be re-opened, after it was temporarily shut as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Thailand s southern province of Narathiwat on Sunday (June 13, 2021). - AFP
BANGKOK, June 13 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Sunday reported 2, 804 new cases and 18 deaths over a 24-hour period.
of the total, 1, 567 were local patients who went to hospitals, 767 were found in proactive search operations, 409 infected people were found in prisons and 61 were overseas arrivals, mostly from Cambodia.
Bangkok led the list of most cases with 924, followed by Samut Prakan (217), Ayuthaya (206), Samut Sakhon (139), and Nonthaburi (122).
TAIPEI: Thailand is prioritising AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines produced there for its own use because of the severity of the pandemic there, thus delaying deliveries to Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday.
2021/06/10 19:07 (Twitter, Roy Ngerng photo) (Twitter, Roy Ngerng photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), on Thursday (June 10) suddenly lashed out at a Singaporean activist and journalist by labeling him a white supremacist and made a cryptic comment about Japanese anime. At 12:31 p.m. on Thursday, Roy Ngerng posted a tweet in which he wrote that he was very proud that Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) had strengthened Taiwan s relationship with other democracies to such an extent that Japan and the U.S. are coming to Taiwan s aid so quickly. He then stressed that this was possible without Taiwan having to lose its integrity, dignity, and sovereignty.
Taiwan s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, second right, gestures as he welcomes US senators to his right Democratic Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, members of the Armed Services Committee on their arrival at the Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, June 6, 2021. (Pool Photo via AP)
TAIPEI, Taiwan The US will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share millions of jabs globally, three senators said Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its efforts to secure the injections amid an outbreak.