WASHINGTON, June 19 — The United States will ship 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan today, a senior administration official told, more than tripling Washington’s previous allocation of shots for the island, which has faced increasing political and military pressure from China.
The 2.5 million donated doses of the Moderna Inc vaccine will leave Memphis, Tennessee, on a flight belonging to Taiwan’s China Airlines early on Saturday and arrive in Taipei tomorrow evening, the senior US administration official said, adding that the prompt delivery was due to experts from both sides being able to work out regulatory issues.
A deal for Taiwan to purchase vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech SE fell through this year, with Taiwan’s government blaming pressure from Beijing. Taiwan is trying to speed up the arrival of the millions of vaccines it has on order, although infections remain comparatively low despite a rise in domestic cases. Only around 6 per cent of Taiwan’s 23.5 million people have received at least one shot of a vaccine regimen.
Jonathan Fritz, a senior State Department official, said on Thursday that China had been “very aggressively using vaccine donations as a lever to induce more of Taiwan’s diplomatic partners to switch recognition.”
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