Taiwan mobilises diplomats to seek out COVID-19 shots – Netscape News

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan is mobilising its diplomatic corps to secure a speedier delivery of COVID-19 vaccines – a quest that has become more urgent since a sudden rise in domestic cases on an island that has vaccinated less than 1% of its population. Taiwan has reported more than 700 new domestic infections during the past week, leading to new curbs in the capital, Taipei, and shocking a population that had become accustomed to life carrying on almost normally with the pandemic well under control. Taiwan, a major semiconductor manufacturing hub, has only received about 300,000 shots so far for its…