The government should tell the public when Taiwan is expected to have vaccination coverage of at least 60 percent of the population, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) said yesterday.
So far, the government has not been able to give people a clear response as to when that goal is likely to be achieved, Wang told an online news conference from Taipei.
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration has a responsibility to answer this question and should not avoid it, Wang said.
“Taiwanese are very worried right now,” and what they hope for the most is for COVID-19
Tsai’s public health policy a failure: KMT
By Shih Hsiao-kuang,
Chien Hui-ju
and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has failed to protect public health, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday, citing a survey suggesting that people are unhappy with the government’s pork and COVID-19 vaccine policies.
In a survey commissioned by the party that was conducted by TVBS Media, 69.6 percent of respondents said they disapproved of importing pork products containing ractopamine residue, including 46.6 percent who “strongly disapproved” of the policy, KMT Culture and Communications Committee chairwoman Alicia Wang (王育敏) told a news conference in Taipei.
Economics minister must resign: KMT
POWER TRIP: The KMT questioned whether Thursday’s power outage was caused by a problem with the distribution network, as the government said, or by power generation
By Shih Hsiao-kuang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Branding the government’s energy policy as “problematic,” the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday demanded the resignation of Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) to take responsibility for wide-ranging power outages on Thursday.
The outages affected 8.46 million customers, Taiwan Power Co said, adding that a short-term rolling blackout was initiated across the country as an emergency measure after four generators tripped at the Singda Power Plant in Kaohsiung.
KMT urges more vaccination incentives
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the government to increase incentives for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) told a news conference in Taipei that China, Israel, Japan, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US have higher COVID-19 vaccination rates than Taiwan.
While the global average of the number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people was 14.2, it is only 0.3 per 100 people in Taiwan, Wang said, citing foreign media reports.
Taiwan Society of Preventive Medicine chairman Arthur Chen speaks at a news conference at the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) headquarters in Taipei yesterday.