Taiwan says it hasn't given up hope of getting BioNTech vaccines


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TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan has not given up hope of eventually getting COVID-19 vaccines from Germany's BioNTech SE, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Sunday, a deal that Taipei's government has blamed China for not being able to complete. After recording just a handful of daily infections for months, Taiwan is dealing with relatively large numbers of community transmissions, though infection rates are starting to fall. It has only vaccinated around 1% of its more than 23 million people but has almost 30 million shots on order, from AstraZeneca Plc, Moderna Inc and two domestic firms. The Chinese-claimed island has blamed...