Former minister of health and welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) formally received the Democratic Progressive Party nomination as Taipei mayoral candidate and has resigned from the health portfolio to focus his energies on the campaign.
Upon hearing this news, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安), the KMT’s nominee for the coveted position, believed that he had been handed a stick with which to beat Chen, mocking him as a “runaway minister.”
The KMT has its share of “runaways.” Elected officials, such as mayors, legislators and city or county councilors, are accorded a term of four years before they next face
More than 100 million COVID-19 rapid test kits are expected to be delivered by the end of this month, a Ministry of Health and Welfare official said yesterday.
Tsai Shou-chuan, head of the ministry’s Department of Secretarial Affairs, told a meeting of the legislature’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee that the government has ordered about 195 million Roche-brand and 50 million Abbott-brand rapid test kits.
About 65 million Roche and 30 million Abbot test kits, plus 37.5 million of other brands, should be delivered by the end of this month, Tsai said in response to questions by Taiwan People’s Party Legislator
INOCULATIONS: Nearly 1.9m doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived yesterday, which would be given first as a booster shot to people aged 12 to 17, the CECC saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter, with CNA
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said that he knows how to fight COVID-19 better than Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), and that he attends online disease prevention meetings even when he is not in Taipei.
Ko, who is also the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) chairman, was visiting his hometown, Hsinchu, and stopped at several places with TPP Legislator Ann Kao (高虹安) and TPP city councilor candidates.
As the daily local COVID-19 case count has been increasing in the past few days, especially in northern Taiwan, city councilors have asked
Animal rights advocates took parakeets with them for a meeting at the legislature in Taipei yesterday, as they handed awards to lawmakers who are friendly to their cause.
The animal rights advocates were led by National University of Tainan professor of management Wu Chung-hsien (吳宗憲), who said they had brought seven parakeets to show that it is not just cats and dogs, but also many birds that are kept as pets in Taiwan, all needing protection from abuse.
The awards were given to seven lawmakers who “supported our cause by initiating amendments for enhanced measures under the Animal Protection Act (動物保護法),” Wu