AFFECTING PEOPLE’S HEALTH: Noise has been the most frequently reported environmental hazard in the capital, said Chan Ta-chien, the researcher who led the projectBy Yang Yuan-ting and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taiwan yesterday announced that it would donate 150,000 doses of the domestically developed Medigen COVID-19 vaccine to Somaliland as part of its continued assistance to the self-governing east African state to combat the pandemic.
The pledge was made after Taiwan Representative Office in the Republic of Somaliland head Wu Chen-chi (吳鎮祺) and Somaliland Minister of Health Hassan Mohamed Ali Gafathi signed an agreement at an event in Somaliand’s capital, Hargeisa, on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a news release.
The donation is to be made as Africa faces a huge wave of cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2,
MEDIGEN MISSION: The two sides on Monday signed an agreement to deliver the donation, which is to be made as Africa faces a wave of cases of the Omicron variant/ Staff writer, with CNA