Countdown during Lockdown - The Rocky Road to Tokyo
China will not follow the plan suggested by the World Health Organization for the second phase of its investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in labs in the country. The vice head of the National Commission said the WHO plan contained language that does not respect science and opposed politicization of the origins study.
Taiwan has ordered 36 million additional doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, the government said. The government of the self-ruled island has previously accused China of sabotaging its procurement effort. But the island has already received about 9 million doses of Moderna and AstraZeneca, donated by Japan and the US, enabling it to ramp up its vaccination program.