Health Minister: Taiwan won’t import a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine


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Health Minister: Taiwan won’t import a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine 14 October, 2020 Natalie Tso CNA photo Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said Wednesday that Taiwan will not import any COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in China. That’s amid questions over a recent announcement by Taiwan’s TTY Biopharm that it has the distribution rights to a COVID-19 vaccine by German firm BioNTech. Some media outlets report that BioNTech has cooperated with China’s Fosun Pharma. TTY Biopharm released a statement on Tuesday saying that BioNTech is a German company which has a Chinese ownership of only 0.7%. The Central Epidemic Command Center says that Fosun...