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2021/04/21 10:54 Researchers at Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp. Researchers at Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan is willing to share its homegrown coronavirus vaccines with diplomatic allies once the manufacturers secure emergency use authorization for their products, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday (April 20). During a press conference, Alexander Yui (俞大㵢), director-general of the MOFA Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, said the country would not hesitate to provide its locally developed vaccines to allies after domestic demand is met. He said using the vaccines as foreign aid would certainly be an option for the Taiwanese government, as Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) had previously suggested.
TAIPEI (The China Post) â Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (é³æä¸) said on Wednesday that although health authorities are still investigating the infection source of the two newest COVID-19 cases reported in Taiwan, the possibility of them being local infections are not too high.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC, ä¸å¤®æµè¡ç«æ ææ®ä¸å¿) reported two new confirmed cases, both of which are Taiwanese pilots.
However, as the source of infection is still unclear, it is impossible to determine whether it is an overseas infection, aircraft infection, or local infection.
Speaking to the press on Wednesday morning, Chen pointed out that the infection source of two domestic pilots is still unknown.
Starting tomorrow, eligibility for government-funded COVID-19 vaccines is to be expanded to the fifth and sixth priority groups police officers, military police, and workers and residents of long-term care facilities and social welfare institutions, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the center is expanding eligibility to the next two priority groups tomorrow because too few people have so far received a government-funded dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
In the fifth priority group are those who maintain public order and security, such as police officers and
The chance that two pilots who on Monday tested positive for COVID-19 caught the virus while in Taiwan was very slim, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Tuesday reported the confirmed cases No. 1,078 and No. 1,079, two cargo plane pilots at a local airline, who on Wednesday last week flew on the same plane to the US.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is CECC spokesperson, on Tuesday said that the source of infection is under investigation, adding that they might have caught the virus