TAIPEI — Taiwan’s health minister warned on Tuesday of further delays to getting more COVID-19 vaccines but said the government was doing all it could to get them, as he reported a stabilization of new infections.
Taiwan has been struggling to speed up its vaccination program while it deals with a spike in domestic cases, with only about 3% of its 23.5 million people having received at least one shot.
The government had said it aimed to get 2 million more doses by the end of this month, apart from an almost similar number donated by Japan and the United States, but Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said there were problems getting the vaccines.
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