Blinken urges WHO to invite Taiwan
‘FORCE FOR GOOD’: Excluding the interests of Taiwanese from the WHA only serves to imperil shared global health objectives, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday urged the WHO to invite Taiwan to participate in the World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer, saying that China’s objections are to blame for Taiwan’s exclusion from the organization.
Blinken’s remarks came after the French Senate on Thursday passed a resolution 304-0 backing Taiwan’s participation in international organizations, including the WHO, and after the G7 foreign ministers backed Taiwan’s WHA bid in a joint communique on Wednesday.
Prime Minister, Minister of Health & CMO among First to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines
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Former immunization manager, Nurse Julietta Cassius, became Saint Lucia’s first citizen to be vaccinated.
She encouraged citizens to get vaccinated when their number is called especially those who have already tested positive for the virus. “Even with natural immunity it is still not full immunity so regardless of one having the virus it is still important to receive the vaccine.”
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet, his wife, Minister of Health Mary Isaac and CMO Dr. Sharon Belmar-George, former CMO Dr. Stephen King who opined that the vaccine in his view is our only way out, were among the frontliners receiving their first jab.