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Daily local case count falls below 100

Taipei Times

A worker cleans the Second Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market in Taipei’s Zhongshan District yesterday. The market was closed for business yesterday after several vendors at the market tested positive for COVID-19.
Photo: CNA

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 75 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections, the lowest daily count since the nationwide level 3 alert was issued last month.

Translation a cover for false news

Hung Yu-jui 洪昱睿

Earlier this month, the Japanese government donated 1.24 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan without asking for anything in return — a very generous and good deed.

However, it seems that there is a group of people in Taiwan who are incapable if distinguishing between right and wrong. They try to find fault with the AstraZeneca vaccine, talk about the donation in a sarcastic tone, and express pessimism about the relationship between Taiwan and Japan. It is very sad to see.

COVID-19: US sending 2.5 million Moderna shots

Taipei Times

A medical worker holds up a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital in New Taipei City on Wednesday last week.
Photo: Sam Yeh, AFP

The US was yesterday to ship 2.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, a senior US administration official told Reuters, more than tripling Washington’s previous allocation of shots for the nation.

Taiwan can help NATO defy China

Taipei Times Editorial

NATO leaders in a communique on Monday described China as a threat to the “rules-based international order and to areas relevant to alliance security,” marking a major change of focus for the organization.

They said that China “is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal,” is “opaque” about its military modernization and is “cooperating militarily with Russia.”

Following the NATO meeting in Brussels, US President Joe Biden assured the alliance that the US would honor its NATO commitments, and said that China and Russia were attempting to drive a wedge between the Washington and European allies.

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