COVID-19: DPP pans 'vaccine beggar' remark – Taipei Times

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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday condemned Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) Institute of Revolutionary Practice director Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) for calling the government a "vaccine beggar" for receiving a donation of COVID-19 vaccines from the US. "Lo is still living in feudal China," DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) told a news conference. "When Taiwan needs unity, he uses malicious words to malign our president's character and Taiwan's national integrity. This person is either evil or he is completely ignorant," she said. A doctored image of Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung depicts him as a beggar holding a sign…