The Taipei city government and, in particular, Mayor Ko Wen-je have come under scrutiny after a controversy regarding vaccine allocations to the Good Liver Clinic, which is accused of violating the priority order for vaccinations...
It is clear that Taiwan is at the very early beginning of what Singapore saw in April 2020, when a spike in COVID-19 infections amongst its migrant workers population led the government to order a lockdown of all migrant dormitories...
274 domestic cases of COVID-19 were reported today by the CECC, with one imported case. Controversy about individuals defying the vaccination priority order continues, after the brother of the Yunlin County magistrate was vaccinated despite not being eligible for vaccination, and a clinic in Taipei was found to be vaccinating individuals outside of the current categories for vaccination...
211 domestic cases were announced at the CECC press conference today. The backlog is taken care of now, so there are no backlog cases, and there were three imported cases. 26 deaths were announced...
One expects that attempts by China to sow division in Taiwan using the issue of vaccines will only continue—if not strengthen—after the recent vaccine donations from the US and Japan. Vaccine diplomacy is the name of the game...
Three US Senators, Tammy Duckworth, Chris Coons, and Dan Sullivan visited Taiwan this morning on a military transport plane that arrived from South Korea today around 7 AM. During a press conference held at 7:45 AM, the three senators announced a donation of 750,000 vaccines to Taiwan...
The CECC announced 476 domestic cases and 35 cases from the backlog at its press conference today. Miaoli continues to be an area of particular concern, with 66 cases, due to a cluster of cases linked to migrant workers at an electronics factory owned by King Yuan with over 7,000 workers...