Vaccine skepticism is on the rise in Taiwan, with visible decreases in the number of vaccinations in the past two weeks. Much of the causes of this can be attributed to sensationalism by the Taiwanese media...
54 domestic cases of COVID-19 were announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily press conference today, along with eight deaths. This is again the lowest number of cases in Taiwan in a month, although Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung stated that this could be due to lower testing over the weekend...
A number of pan-Blue politicians have been implicated in the scandal regarding Taipei clinics violating vaccine priority order, to vaccine individuals accused of being allowed to skip the priority order because of their elite status. Among those vaccinated include former vice president Lien Chan, former legislator and Taipei mayoral candidate Ting Shou-chung, and former legislator Chang Hsien-yao, who was also a past secretary-general of the Straits Exchange Foundation...
78 domestic cases of COVID-19 and two imported cases were announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily press conference today. 13 deaths were also announced. The Delta variant of COVID-19 has entered Taiwan, with seven domestic cases in Pingtung due to individuals that returned to Taiwan from Peru, and spread COVID-19 to others despite being under home quarantine...
There has been increased international attention to the plight of migrant workers in Taiwan, after clusters broke out among migrant workers at eight electronics factories in Miaoli over the last month. The Miaoli clusters consisted of a total of 471 individuals, of which 400 were migrant workers, and of which 71 were Taiwanese...