Once a covid success story, Taiwan struggles with a vaccine shortage

Once a covid success story, Taiwan struggles with a vaccine shortage
Lily Kuo, Alicia Chen
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Medical personnel guide people at a rapid coronavirus testing center in Taipei on Tuesday.
TAIPEI, Taiwan —For most of the past year, it was as though the pandemic didn't exist in Taiwan. Restaurants and bars remained crowded. Reservations were hard to come by. Large events including music festivals and marathons went ahead, while domestic tourism boomed. In April, as many as 4 million people crowded the streets in central Taiwan for a nine-day pilgrimage.
Life was so normal that when the government began offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to certain groups in late March, few saw the need to get inoculated. Worried the unused doses would go to waste, authorities opened access to the general public for a fee.

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