TAIPEI( REUTERS)-Taiwan's government on Monday( July 19) approved the use and production of Medigen

emergency use of Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp's COVID-19 vaccine, part of a broader plan for

finally be available to the public from Monday( Aug 23). Some 600, 000 doses of Medigen Vaccine

start administering its first domestic vaccine, made by Medigen Vaccine Biologics. The health

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen receives a locally developed coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Taipei on Aug.... Even though community cases began spreading on the island from mid-May in the latest wave, the government has since succeeded in curbing the virus's spread through strict measures including a total ban on restaurant dining.... But the government plans to continue enforcing the level-two COVID-19 alert, the third-highest of four levels, for the time being as the highly contagious De

TAIPEI( REUTERS)-Mr Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple Inc supplier Foxconn, has asked BioNTechto reserve 30 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine for Taiwan, saying he had received a" very good" response. Taiwan's quest to access the vaccine, jointly developed with Pfizer Inc, has dragged on for months, hampered by accusations from Taipei of political interference from Beijing, which regards the island as a renegade province to be reunified, by force, if necessary. China has deni

TAOYUAN( REUTERS)-The first batch of BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Taiwan on Thursday( Sept 2), after months of heated political and diplomatic wrangling and helped by the involvement of two of the world's most important tech firms. Taiwan has blamed China, which claims the island as its own territory, for nixing an original order from the German firm earlier this year-charges Beijing has angrily denied. Taiwan's government subsequently allowed major Apple supplier Foxconn-formally Hon

Those studies, involving tens of thousands of volunteers, compared the rate of COVID-19 infections in people who received the shot with the rate in participants who got a placebo.... Such randomized, controlled trials may no longer be considered ethical in some countries, as researchers cannot give a dummy shot to people where an effective vaccine is widely available.... Such a benchmark is “ urgently needed ” to help overcome challenges faced by vaccine developers and boost availability of sh

WASHINGTON( AFP)-Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionise medicine. The technique could help save children's tears at doctors' offices, and help people who have a phobia of syringes. Beyond that, skin patches could assist with distribution efforts, because they don't have cold-chain requirements-and might e

PHOTO: AFP Over 98 million vaccine doses have been administered, with 57.9 per cent of the population fully vaccinated withModerna, AstraZeneca, Johnson Johnson or Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccines.... It has seen 946 infections and three deaths. Category I Hong Kong People walk past a government banner encouraging the public to take the vaccine in Hong Kong, on Aug 15, 2021.... PHOTO: AFP Hong Kong has administered 68.2 million doses of Pfizer/ BioNTech and Sinovac vaccines so far, with 39.8 per cent