Keelung, May 4 (CNA) Keelung authorities on Wednesday implored residents to refrain from profiteering from the government's COVID-19 rapid test kits rationing program after rumors of illegal conduct in the northern Taiwan city.
The head of the Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) yesterday promised to help ethnic Chinese students in Taiwan without a National Health Insurance (NHI) card acquire government-rationed COVID-19 rapid test kits.
“We are currently in talks with the Ministry of Health and Welfare to see if these students can be given rapid test kits by their schools,” OCAC Minister Tung Chen-yuan (童振源) told lawmakers at a meeting of legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee.
Independent Legislator Freddy Lim (林昶佐) had asked Tung to comment on the issue.
Lim had previously said that many ethnic Chinese students who had recently enrolled in Taiwanese
All pharmacies and public health centers contracted by National Health Insurance (NHI) to provide COVID-19 rapid test kits have been restocked as part of the rationing program that began on Thursday, Minister of Health Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday.
Kits were delivered to 2,700 of 4,957 pharmacies on Friday, and the remaining allocated stocks were delivered yesterday morning, Chen said.
More kits are to be delivered tomorrow to pharmacies that open on Sundays.
The Federation of Taiwan Pharmacists’ Associations on Friday said that it was dissatisfied that only about half of the NHI-contracted pharmacies had received expected deliveries ahead of the weekend.
Meanwhile, Taiwan
Taipei, April 30 (CNA) All national health insurance (NHI)-contracted pharmacies and public health centers have been restocked with COVID-19 rapid test kits as part of the rationing program that began Thursday, said Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) on Saturday.