SAFETY FIRST: About 25,000 workers in the airline and airport service industry would be eligible for vaccination, based on the government’s order of priority, the CAA saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported two new imported cases of COVID-19, an arrival from Nigeria and another from the Philippines.
The Nigerian, a man in his 50s who lives in Taiwan and holds a residency permit, traveled to Nigeria on Jan. 8 to attend a funeral and had a slight cough during his trip, which subsided after he took some medicine, CECC spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said at a news briefing.
He returned to Taiwan on Sunday and presented proof of a negative COVID-19 test result issued within three days of his flight, as is required for
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Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group might have lost its right to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and the ability to fulfill a contract in Taiwan, civic groups Taiwan Citizen Front and the Economic Democracy Union said yesterday.
In a radio interview on Feb. 17, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), head of the Central Epidemic Command Center, said that last year, Taiwan was close to signing a contract to buy doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but that the deal was halted at the last moment, with some speculating that Chinese interference was to blame.
On Monday last week, the center