Taiwan’s Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) local epidemic is heating up, the number of confirmed cases for several days exceeded 100, in addition to the strict implementation of various preventive measures, accelerate the procurement of vaccines is also an important task. The U.S. Department of Health tweeted that Health Secretary Becerra (Xavier Becerra) and our epidemic commander Chen Shizhong discussed the epidemic at 7:30 a.m. Taiwan time on the 21st, and said the U.S. would assist Taiwan in obtaining a vaccine.
The U.S. Department of Health tweeted, “Honored to discuss the evolving outbreak and global health issues with Taiwan’s Minister Chen, and that the United States will assist Taiwan in obtaining a vaccine, allowing Taiwan to contribute to health security and return to the World Health Assembly (WHA) observer list.” The tag “LetTaiwanHelp” is at the end of the article.
The supply of vaccines in China is currently limited, about 410,000 doses of AZ vaccine arrived in Taiwan the day before yesterday and is expected to complete operations in a week at the earliest and can be distributed to various locations to start vaccinating people.
In addition, U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced the release of another 20 million doses to assist the international community, and our representative in the U.S., Ms. Xiao Meiqin, said she was “in the process of negotiating for it”.
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