266 domestic cases and 89 cases from the test backlog were announced today at the CECC daily press briefing. There were no imported cases. 11 deaths were also announced...
It has proven an odd twist that the manufacturing giant FoxConn and Chang Ya-chung, the head of the Sun Yat-Sen School and the pro-unification Chinese Integration Association, have announced plans to purchase vaccines in the past few days. Although FoxConn CEO Terry Gou claims that he intend to purchase German BioNTech vaccines for Taiwan, not Chinese vaccines, BioNTech's past record makes a strong case for skepticism. Chang's actions are further suspicious, as his actions suggest murky links to Shanghai Fosun, in seeking to purchase both BioNTech and Sinopharm vaccines. Sinopharm is 49% owned by Shanghai Fosun, ostensibly BioNtech's Greater China market distributor, as a joint venture with the Chinese government...
320 new domestic cases were announced by the CECC today, along with seven imported cases, and 166 cases from the backlog. The CECC also revealed details of its efforts to speed up the processing of backlogged cases, stating that lower daily numbers have been reported from the backlog because the processing of backlogged cases has increased in speed...
297 domestic cases of COVID-19, two imported cases, and 258 cases from the backlog were announced at the CECC's daily press conference today. 19 deaths were also reported, setting a new record for the daily deaths due to COVID-19, breaking yesterday’s records...
401 new domestic cases and four imported cases were announced today, along with 266 cases added from the backlog. For the first time, Minister of Health Chen Shih-chung revealed the timeline for negotiations with Biontech and why talks broke down, something that began due to Biontech raising issues over what term Taiwan should be referred to as in a press release, despite having originally signed off on the press release...
Taiwan not invited to the annual World Health Assembly meeting again this year, despite a number of nations calling for Taiwan’s inclusion as an observer. The World Health Assembly is the governing body of the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for global health. Taiwan's exclusion occurs despite the current COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan...
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung announced 302 domestic cases, two imported cases, and 11 deaths at today’s CECC press conference, in the largest one-day death toll from COVID-19 announced in Taiwan to date...
The CECC announced that the current level three alert will be extended until June 14th at its press conference this afternoon. Two million vaccines are set to arrive in Taiwan in June, while ten million vaccines are set to arrive in August. 281 domestic cases, two imported cases, and six new deaths were also announced. Though this is the third consecutive day that has seen six deaths due to COVID-19 and the number of new cases is subject to revision as new cases are added from the backlog of unprocessed tests, this is significantly down from yesterday's 376 cases...