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- A + A TAIPEI (March 19): Taiwan will begin its Covid-19 vaccination programme on Monday using AstraZeneca plc shots, its health minister said on Friday, with Premier Su Tseng-chang volunteering to be inoculated first to underscore confidence in its safety. Taiwan's first vaccines — 117,000 doses of the AstraZeneca shot — arrived on the island earlier this month from a South Korean factory. Health minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters that officials had now given the go-ahead for the shots to start being administered from Monday at 57 vaccination sites around the island. Around 60,000 people are in line to...
