COVID-19: AstraZeneca shipments land in TaiwanRELIABLE PARTNER: Poland’s donation of 400,000 doses makes it the nation’s third-largest vaccine donor, while 410,400 doses were received from the COVAX programBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterTwo shipments of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, each containing about 400,000 doses, arrived in Taiwan yesterday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that one was donated by Poland and the other was from the COVAX global vaccine distribution program. Earlier this year, Japan donated 3.34 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Taiwan and the US donated 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine. Workers offload a batch of 400,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Poland from a plane at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday morning. Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei TimesThe third shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX — a batch of 410,400 AstraZeneca vaccine doses — arrived in Taiwan yesterday afternoon. Chen said the AstraZeneca vaccine doses that arrived yesterday would be offered mainly to people who have received a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Source: Taipei Times September 05, 2021 15:56 UTC