Taipei, June 3 (CNA) Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Thursday said that Taiwan seems headed for a new peak in COVID-19 cases, as 585 new infections and 17 deaths from the disease were reported earlier in the day.
2021/05/28 17:56 Foxconn Technology founder Terry Gou is still trying to buy BioNTech vaccines in China, media reports say Foxconn Technology founder Terry Gou is still trying to buy BioNTech vaccines in China, media reports say (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou (郭台銘) says he s waiting for a green light from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to import vaccines via a Chinese company, reports said Friday (May 28).
The previous day, a spokesperson for the tycoon said Gou wanted to buy 10 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Chairman Guo Guangchang (郭廣昌). The deal is politically sensitive due to China’s involvement.
Taiwan voices deep displeasure after being shunned by WHA
05/24/2021 04:09 PM
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Taipei, May 24 (CNA) Taiwan has expressed its deep displeasure at not getting invited to this year s World Health Assembly (WHA) and being excluded from the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a fifth consecutive year.
In a joint letter of protest issued Monday by Taiwan s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said this year s WHA remains focused on the COVID-19 response and building a healthier, safer, and fairer world together. The recent escalation of the pandemic in Taiwan further shows that viruses know no borders. Taiwan cannot remain on the sidelines, and there should not be a gap in global disease prevention, he said in the letter, which was also signed by Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (吳釗燮).
2021/05/22 15:58 No seating available on the Dadaocheng Pier in Taipei as COVID hits No seating available on the Dadaocheng Pier in Taipei as COVID hits (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) After news leaked that Taiwan would report more than 700 new COVID-19 cases Saturday (May 22), the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) explained that 400 of those cases were from the past week thereby showing the number of new cases is actually going down. At its daily news conference, the CECC announced 321 new domestic cases, including two deaths, and two imported cases. However, for the first time, it also retroactively distributed 400 previously unknown cases over the past week.
Taiwan has seen record-breaking daily case counts this week. Two of the shops, which two infected women worked at, were in a densely populated area of the capital near the Longshan Temple MRT Station and Xinfu Market, where large numbers of people circulate each day, the newspaper reported. Another cluster is thought to be linked to an amusement arcade in northeastern Yilan City,
CNN reported. However, many of the domestic cases centred in northern Taiwan are believed to be connected to an earlier outbreak among pilots and a hotel at Taipei’s main international airport,
Reuters reported. The exact chain of transmission has not yet been confirmed.