Japan, the Czech Republic and nine of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies on Tuesday voiced their support for Taiwan’s inclusion in the World Health Assembly (WHA) after it was not invited to the annual conference for a sixth straight year.
In a prerecorded address played during the third day of the WHA in Geneva, Switzerland, Japanese Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Shigeyuki Goto said the world needed to learn from successful examples of public health responses in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, “such as Taiwan.”
“We should not make any geographical vacuums created by leaving specific regions behind in addressing global health issues such
Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio says he has told his ministers to quickly increase the number of coronavirus vaccine booster shots to 1 million per day, according to NHK World-Japan. Kishida was speaking