2021/03/12 13:13 Palau Milky Way, Rock Islands (Palau Dive Adventures photo) Palau Milky Way, Rock Islands (Palau Dive Adventures photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The first group of Taiwanese passengers to fly to Palau under a new travel bubble is expected to land in the Pacific country early next month. The first group of tourists will likely depart for Palau as soon as early April, CNA cited a source familiar with the matter as saying. On Monday (March 8), the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs began discussions on a tourism bubble between Taiwan and its diplomatic ally Palau.
WAITING ON SCIENCE: If the scientific community establishes a link between blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine, the CECC would change its approach, an official saidBy Wu Liang-yi and Jonathan Chin / Staff Reporter, with Staff Writer and CNA
Health officials expect to finish the final testing for Taiwan’s first batch of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday next week, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the reported risks.
The center has completed six of seven types of tests to clear the initial shipment of 117,000 AstraZeneca vaccines, and only the tests for verifying that the shots are bacteria-free remain, said Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, would soon announce