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The benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh the risks for children between six months and five years old, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, as it also announced that the first Novavax vaccine shipment is to arrive today. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine for young children was to arrive this morning, but due to minor document issues, delivery has been slightly postponed. Lee Ping-ing (李秉穎), convener of the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), told the CECC’s daily news briefing about ....
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said its “1922” hotline does not have the authority to dispatch ambulances or disease prevention vehicles, after the father of a two-year-old who died of COVID-19 said the hotline took too long to respond to his call for help. The two-year-old boy, nicknamed En En (恩恩), began showing symptoms on April 13, was diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to an intensive care unit the next evening. He died of septic shock and brainstem encephalitis induced by COVID-19 on April 19. He was the nation’s first case of a child dying from COVID-19 complications. His father ....
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday criticized the government’s plan to lift a ban on most food imports from Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture and surrounding areas, saying that the proposal was “full of rough edges” and could not guarantee children’s health. The government announced the plan on Tuesday. KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) on Wednesday called for amendments to the School Health Act (學校衛生法) to ensure students’ health, but his statement was dismissed by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday as “clueless,” saying that the act already stipulates that “priority be given to local produce.” “The DPP is the one being clueless, ....
The New Taipei City Government has recognized an artisan who has been restoring statues of deities for more than three decades for his contributions to cultural preservation. Chin Ming-wei (金明偉), 52, has restored more than 10,000 statues of deities over the past 30 years, including those at Taipei’s Xiahai City God Temple and New Taipei City’s Baohe Temple in Lujhou District (蘆洲). Last year, he received a plaque from a temple that named him the “god of healing” and received an award from the New Taipei City Government for his contributions to the preservation of intangible culture. “When I entered junior-high school ....