The Taipei-based Good Liver Clinic is to be fined NT$2 million (US$72,028) after giving free COVID-19 vaccine shots to people not in groups eligible to receive them, Taipei Deputy Mayor Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) said yesterday.
The Zhongshan District (中山)-based clinic was removed from the city’s list of vaccination venues and health officials would be investigated for giving 1,113 doses to the clinic, Huang told an afternoon news conference at Taipei City Hall.
The Chinese-language <i>Liberty Times</i> (the <i>Taipei Times</i>’ sister paper) on Tuesday in an exclusive story citing an anonymous tip reported that a Taipei clinic was doling out unused vaccines.
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Vaccine-related clotting reported
‘RARE’: A man in his 30s sought treatment for a headache and abdominal pain a week after receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca jab, and was found to have blood clotting
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported the nation’s first case of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) in a patient who had received a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The center on Tuesday announced that about 260,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine had been distributed to local governments.
The doses are expected to cover all eligible people in the first to third priority groups for vaccination in Taipei and New Taipei City, as well as all eligible people in the first priority group in other cities and counties, it said.
COVID-19: Test results made available via app
EXPRESS APP: The service should help reduce stress, officials said, adding that people should refrain from entering public spaces for three days following a test
By Yang Yuan-ting and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
People can get COVID-19 rapid screening results via the National Health Insurance Express App, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday as it stressed the importance of not taking public transportation and staying away from public places within three days after being tested.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, made the remarks at the CECC’s daily briefing.
No decentralized purchase of vaccines
CURBING SOLO EFFORTS: Taiwan centralizes vaccine importation to ‘avoid chaos and confusion,’ the center said in response to criticism by Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The central government alone is in charge of importing and approving the use of COVID-19 vaccines, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) yesterday told a media briefing in Taipei, responding to calls for the involvement of local governments in Taiwan’s vaccine drive.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) had said that Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), concealed that local government officials could import vaccines doses through pharmaceutical companies.