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Chen Shih-chung (left) and Chuang Jen-hsiang at an emergency press briefing Monday morning. Photo courtesy of the CECC
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Monday there is no truth to a media report that Taiwan has secured 100,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through diplomatic sources in the United States. There is no such thing, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at an emergency press briefing in Taipei.
Chen was responding to a front page story in the United Daily News on Monday, which said Taiwan had obtained 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer through diplomatic sources in the U.S.