Taiwanese authorities have started vaccination with the new coronavirus vaccine developed by a Taiwanese pharmaceutical company, and President Tsai Ing-wen took the initiative to promote the safety and efficacy.
This vaccine is of the type "recombinant protein vaccine" developed by the Taiwanese pharmaceutical company "Medigen Vaccine Biologics".
Last month, Taiwanese authorities allowed emergency use for people over the age of 20 and began vaccination on the 23rd.
Since emergency use was permitted based on the data before the final stage clinical trial, there are voices of doubt and criticism from opposition parties, etc., but President Tsai Ing-wen took the initiative in receiving the inoculation, and SNS We released it on live stream and emphasized its safety and effectiveness.
In Taiwan, only about 40% of people have been vaccinated once and about 3% have been vaccinated twice by last weekend, and the authorities havetened to procure vaccines from overseas and inoculated by introducing Taiwanese vaccines. I want to accelerate.
On the other hand, in Taiwan, the highly infectious mutant virus "Delta strain" has not spread so far, and the number of newly infected people in the region excluding those from overseas will be in the single digit from the beginning of this month. There are many.
For this reason, Taiwanese authorities have decided to relax the maximum number of people who can gather in one place from the current 50 to 80 indoors and from the current 100 to 300 outdoors after the 24th. increase.