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...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has come under scrutiny for a series of COVID-19 clusters in Taipei in the past week. What proves interesting, however, is that these are not new COVID-19 clusters, but clusters that have developed since May...
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...
Legislator Freddy Lim and city councilor Sabrina Lim, both independents that represent Taipei constituencies and former members of the New Power Party, held a press conference earlier this month to call attention to elderly disabled Taipei residents being denied benefits they should have by law...
Anger against Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je broke out last month among local activists in the Songyan area, following the forced removal of historic trees by the Taipei Dome construction area on March 16th...