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Covid-19: United States donates 2.5 million doses to Taiwan

2021-06-23T23:20:11.845Z


The United States remains Taiwan's most powerful ally. The United States announced on Saturday that 2.5 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines were on their way to the island of Taiwan, long erected as a model of good pandemic management but plagued by a peak in infections, in the risks arousing the ire of Beijing. " Our donation of 2.5 million doses of vaccine is on its way to Taiwan, whose health partnership with the United States has saved lives here


The United States announced on Saturday that 2.5 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines were on their way to the island of Taiwan, long erected as a model of good pandemic management but plagued by a peak in infections, in the risks arousing the ire of Beijing.

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Our donation of 2.5 million doses of vaccine is on its way to Taiwan, whose health partnership with the United States has saved lives here, and around the world,"

announced Ned Price, the spokesperson. word of American diplomacy, on Twitter.

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This is three times more than what a delegation of American senators visiting the island had promised in early June.

Taiwan, which is excluded from the World Health Organization (WHO), had been praised abroad for the effectiveness of its initial response to the pandemic, with very limited contamination last year.

But the island of 23 million inhabitants is facing a very strong epidemic resurgence and accuses China of hampering its efforts to obtain antidotes.

China is claiming Taiwan, which it considers one of its provinces, and is working to keep the island diplomatically isolated.

Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979 in order to recognize Beijing as China's sole official representative. But the United States remains Taiwan's most powerful ally and its number one arms supplier.

Source: lefigaro

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