- Taiwan has sought Germany’s help in securing COVID-19 vaccines, Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Thursday (Jan 28), after Berlin asked for the island’s assistance in easing a shortage of automobile semiconductor chips.
- Wang told reporters she made the request at a meeting with Germany’s de facto ambassador in Taipei, who handed her a letter seeking help to resolve the shortage, which is hampering the European nation’s fledgling economic recovery from the pandemic.
- At their meeting on Wednesday, Wang said, she told the head of the German mission in Taipei that she hoped Germany could assist Taiwan in obtaining vaccines within the feasible range”.
- Late last month, Taiwan said it had agreed to buy almost 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, including 10 million from AstraZeneca, with the first to start arriving from March.
- Another 4.76 million are expected to come from global vaccine programme COVAX, but the government has given no details of which company may supply the rest.
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