Taipei: Tsai President Ing – Wen has been vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine developed in Taiwan’s country on Monday, giving his personal stamp about approval because the island began launching a shot presented by critics.
The Ministry of Health also approved the use of emergency emergency Medigen Biologics Corp-19 vaccine vaccines, part of a broader plan for self-sufficiency inoculation as a delay in sending vaccines from global drug companies has affected Taiwan and many other countries.
Tsai, who has delayed using a vaccine from Moderna Inc.
or AstraZeneca PLC, the mainstay of the current Taiwan Vaccination Program, received his medigen shot in a hospital in Central Taipei, showing his belief in the safety of vaccines.
Tsai chatted with medical workers when they prepared his shot, the whole process was broadcast live on his Facebook page, and gave a short “no” response to the question of shouting from reporters about whether he was nervous.
More than 700,000 people have registered so far to receive the Medigen vaccine, which requires a second shot 28 days after the first.
The government said the initial experience of the pandemic last year, when basic inventories such as facial masks in short supply, made him realize that they must be able to rely on critical material.
Medigen, whose Chinese name literally means “high-end”, refuses the vaccine claims insecure or has been sent to the market in a hurry which is not proper, by saying it is effective and well tested.
“We have done so many experiments, everyone has seen how safe our vaccines.
There are so few side effects, almost no fever and so on.
So I think everyone can be sure,” said Chief Executive Medigen Chen Chen told Reuters.
Recombinant protein vaccines have been developed in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and the government has ordered 5 million initial doses.
It is said that no one will be forced to get it.
Vaccines have not completed clinical trials and no efficacy data available, but the government said the studies so far indicate that the antibodies created by shots have been “no worse than” made by Astrazeneca vaccines.
Taiwan’s main opposition party, Kuomintang, or KMT, has installed a fierce campaign against shots, with one of the previous deputy chairmen, Hau Lung-bin, filed a lawsuit to cancel Medigen’s authorization, even though the court refused last week.
The party said it supported the domestic vaccine, but Medigen’s approval was in a hurry.
“No need for the lives and health of Taiwanese to serve as a white mouse in the laboratory,” Ho Chih-Yung, Deputy Head of the Ministry of International KMT, told Reuters.
About 40% of 23.5 million Taiwanese have received at least one shot from one of the two-dose astrazeneca or modern vaccine, although less than 5% fully vaccinated.
However, unlike some other parts of Asia, Taiwan did not face great pressure to speed up his vaccination drive, because it only recorded a handful of domestic infections a day.
Taiwan has received more than 10 million vaccine doses to date, and in July ordered 36 million doses of modernna.
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