Taipei, Aug. 14 (CNA) Taiwan on Saturday saw another day with single-digit domestic COVID-19 cases, an indication the country is able to keep the disease under control, according to Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中).
A group of 148 people departed from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday morning as Taiwan’s suspended travel bubble with Palau resumed.
A China Airlines flight took off at about 10:30am under a program in which the Pacific island country is offering up to 2,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to arrivals from Taiwan.
The “travel bubble,” which allows Taiwanese to visit Palau under eased protocols, was initially launched on April 1, but was suspended in the middle of May after a surge of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan.
While Taiwan has contained the outbreak, it still faces a shortage of vaccines.
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Taipei, Aug. 14 (CNA) Taiwan has recorded 145 imported COVID-19 cases since early July, 12 of which involved people who had been fully vaccinated against the disease for at least two weeks, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The Chinese National Federation of Industries in its white paper this year called on the government to launch a carbon pricing mechanism, which showed that urging more climate action is no longer just an environmental campaign.
The federation, chaired by Formosa Plastics Group chairman William Wong (王文淵), was previously critical of pollution control regulations and was therefore in conflict with local environmentalists.
However, in the white paper released on Thursday, the federation joined environmentalists in calling on the government to pay more attention to the risks of extreme weather events, to implement a carbon pricing scheme and to draft a roadmap to