U.S. confident Taiwan can contain latest outbreak: AIT director
05/26/2021 01:35 PM
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Taipei, May 26 (CNA) The United States de facto ambassador to Taiwan said the U.S. has confidence in Taiwan s ability to contain the recent COVID-19 surge while hinting that Taipei may not be a high priority in the U.S. program to send vaccines overseas.
The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Brent Christensen, whose three-year term ends this summer, was responding to a question in the Q&A portion of his farewell press event during which vaccines were a major focus.
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Taipei, May 26 (CNA) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) will update its COVID-19 vaccination guidelines to allow people to receive a second dose of a different vaccine if they have a severe allergic reaction to the first dose.
The issue of so-called vaccine mixing which arises from the fact that most COVID-19 vaccines require a two-dose regimen has been debated in a variety of contexts, including as a response to vaccine recipients who suffer adverse reactions.
Although Taiwan s vaccination guidelines currently prohibit the practice, the CECC is planning to make an exception for people who suffer a severe allergic reaction after receiving their first dose, CECC spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) told CNA on Tuesday.
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