Nation sends oxygen machines to India
JUST THE BEGINNING: The government is planning to buy more machines, as well as raw materials to build them, to help India, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writer, with CNA
The nation is to ship 150 oxygen machines to India this weekend, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday, while confirming that talks are underway to conduct clinical trials of a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine in Paraguay.
The ministry has since last weekend been looking for ways to help India, Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) told reporters in Taipei before heading into a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee to report on Taiwan-Japan relations.
MOU revision to help Paraguay buy Indian vaccines
Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan would provide financing for Paraguay, its South American ally, to purchase COVID-19 vaccines from India, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said on Saturday.
Taipei has agreed to revise a 2018 memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Paraguay, one of Taiwan’s 15 diplomatic allies and its only one in South America, to help it fight the pandemic, the ministry said.
The MOU change would provide Asuncion with US$16.50 million to purchase 2 million doses of the Covaxin vaccine from India-based Bharat Biotech.
A medical worker displays a vial of the Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in India on April 1.
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