AFP Doctors in the democratic island of Taiwan have warned that hospitals in the capital are already overwhelmed by the rapid growth in COVID-19 cases, as the country's government scrambles to procure jabs for an under-vaccinated population. Taiwan, once seen as a haven of normalcy amid the pandemic, is now facing a rapid rise in community-transmitted cases, with the island already under level 3 restrictions affecting businesses, schools and masking requirements in a bid to contain the spread of the virus. Now, the area around the capital Taipei is facing a shortage of isolation ward and intensive care unit (ICU) staff, a medical doctors' union warned on its Facebook page on Thursday.