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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) should allow the public to use rapid testing kits to head off a general outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, is responsible for the low screening rate in Taiwan, KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) said yesterday.
The lack of general screening has been proved to be the reason that the nation’s hospitals are on the brink of collapse, Wang told a news conference in Taipei, quoting Chen as saying last year that false-positives from general screening
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the government to purchase enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to inoculate the entire population, saying that young people have been left out of government vaccination plans.
Young people, like other age groups, are at risk of contracting COVID-19, KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) told an online news conference from the KMT’s headquarters in Taipei.
Several people in their 30s or 40s have died of the disease, she said, adding: “Young people also need to be protected.”
The government has asked young people not to “slack off” regarding disease prevention measures and urged them
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday asked people to change their Facebook profile pictures to an image with the words “Taiwan Needs Vaccines” as KMT Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) questioned the government’s COVID-19 vaccine policy.
“People are worried and afraid, and they have many more questions in their hearts to ask” President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Chiang told an online news conference at the KMT’s headquarters in Taipei.
The primary question is: “Where is your vaccine policy?” Chiang said.
With more than 6,000 people confirmed to have COVID-19 in a short period, Tsai should tell the public when they can expect at least 70
The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Central Standing Committee has decided to push back this year’s elections for chairperson and party delegates, KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) said yesterday.
According to election procedures passed by the committee on May 5, the elections for KMT chairperson and delegates to the party’s 21st National Congress are to be held on July 24.
Under the previously approved date, people seeking to run in the elections would have to register their candidacies on June 7 or June 8.
Committee members agreed at yesterday’s weekly meeting to postpone the elections in light of the