Japan to give Taiwan another 1 million coronavirus vaccine doses

Japan said Friday it will donate another 1 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan. Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu announced the move during a press conference in Tokyo, Taiwan's state-run Central News Agency reported. The second batch of donated doses from Japan will be shipped by mid-July, CNA said. The first batch of 1.24 million AstraZeneca doses from Japan arrived in Taiwan on June 4. Taiwan has also received 2.5 million Moderna doses from the US, and is due to receive 20,000 doses from Lithuania. Taiwan began to speed up its vaccine campaign in early June after locally tran...