After almost 18 months of successful prevention efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus found a way through Taiwanese defenses. The government is channeling all its resources to contain the outbreak, which has dramatically increased the number of victims, and to import as many vaccines as possible to inoculate its population.
The government began vaccinating Taiwanese at the end of March using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, with the first batch of Moderna COVID-19 shots arriving in Taiwan last month. The vaccination campaign is expected to intensify later this month, when, according to Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中),