Taiwan's domestically developed and manufactured COVID-19 vaccine, Medigen, continues to be contested in a partisan fashion. This can be observed in a recent announcement by the Taichung city government that Medigen vaccines would not be distributed on school campuses, with the claim that this was due to parental concerns...
DPP presidential candidate and current vice president Lai Ching-te has expressed support for vaccine manufacturer Medigen revealing the details of its contracts with the government...
Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung stated during a radio interview with Hit FM this afternoon that plans to purchase five million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had possibly been blocked because of Chinese government interference...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, has been increasingly questioned on the timeline for vaccine availability in past weeks...
