COVID-19: Vaccine donation arrives from JapanStaff writer, with CNAA batch of 64,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by Japan arrived in Taiwan yesterday afternoon, the fourth such donation made by Tokyo. A driver transports Japan’s donation of 64,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday. Japan first donated 1.24 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Taiwan on June 4, followed by 1.13 million doses on July 8 and 970,000 doses on July 15. To date, Taiwan has taken delivery of approximately 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, about 6 million of which were donated by other nations. The US is the second-largest vaccine donor to Taiwan after Japan with a donation of 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, followed by Poland, which donated 400,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Source: Taipei Times September 07, 2021 15:56 UTC