Taipei, March 21 (CNA) Slots for 3,000 mpox vaccines were fully booked within 10 minutes of online registration opening Tuesday, as the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported one new imported and three domestically transmitted cases of the disease.
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterAn online mpox vaccination intention registration platform for people at higher risk of the disease was launched yesterday and the 3,000 slots for the first phase of vaccinations were filled within nine minutes, the Centers for Disease Control （CDC） said.
Taipei, April 21 (CNA) The third-phase clinical trial of a drug to treat patients with COVID-19 has officially begun amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in Taiwan, Taiwanese pharmaceutical company PharmaEssentia Corp., the drug's manufacturer, announced Wednesday.
An opera dealing with a resistance movement to Japanese occupation by Hakka-speaking Taiwanese in 1895 is striving for authenticity by using all languages involved Hakka, Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese), Japanese and Paiwan, said Chen Sheng-fu (陳勝福), an opera director working with the Ming Hwa Yuan Arts and Culture Group.
The piece, titled Bu Yueh, Huo Shao (步月．火燒), is based on the true story of the “Liudui” Hakka self-defense alliance, Chen said.
It is to be staged in Pingtung City’s Millennial Park tomorrow, he added.
The four languages involved would give the audience a new perspective on the resistance movement, Chen