Taipei, June 2 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Wednesday urged the public to stand united in the fight against the current COVID-19 outbreak and said her government will spare no effort to contain the disease.
“New Zealanders deserve some transparency when it comes to the vaccine rollout and the COVID-19 Recovery Minister isn’t providing it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We have 250,000 doses of the vaccine in New Zealand. We’re using 100,000 .
Taipei, June 1 (CNA) A charity established by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. founder Terry Gou (郭台銘) on Tuesday submitted documents to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needed for permission to purchase and import COVID-19 vaccines.
Taipei, May 31 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Monday defended Taiwan's development of its own COVID-19 vaccines amid accusations that the government is deliberately preventing imports of vaccines to protect domestic vaccine makers.
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Foxconn Technology Group founder and chairman, Terry Gou, speaks during a news conference after his trip to the U.S., in Taipei, Taiwan May 6, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple Inc (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn, said on Saturday his charity plans to apply to import 5 million doses of BioNTech SE s (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine into Taiwan, which is tackling a spike in infections.
After recording just a handful of daily infections for months, Taiwan is currently dealing with relatively large numbers of community transmissions. It has only vaccinated around 1% of its more than 23 million people, though it has almost 30 million shots on order, from AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L), Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and two domestic firms.