Coronavirus: Taiwan to roll out vaccines for hi-tech workers to protect chip industry
- Island reports 219 new local infections and 22 new deaths
- Premier Su Tseng-chang tells legislature meeting he expects 10 million doses to arrive in Taiwan by the end of August
The decision came as the island’s Central Epidemic Command Centre reported 219 infections and 22 deaths on Tuesday, taking Taiwan’s total since the pandemic began to 11,694 cases and 308 deaths.
The outbreak prompted the Ministry of Science and Technology to issue plans to ensure employees of the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan to be inoculated as soon as the island had enough shots, a ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
“Under our plans, we will set up six large-scale vaccination sites in and around the three parks so employees will have better access to take the jabs once the shots are ready,” the spokesman said.
The park administration would arrange for medical personnel to administer the vaccine and employees of the three parks could make appointments through a web portal already in place, the official said.