{"id":28577,"date":"2021-02-17T15:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/taiwan-china-pressure-covid-vaccine-deal-biontech"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:57:03","slug":"taiwan-suggests-china-to-blame-after-deal-for-5m-covid-vaccine-doses-is-put-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28577","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan suggests China to blame after deal for 5m Covid vaccine doses is put on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plan to buy the BioNTech shot has been delayed amid intervention by \u2018outside forces\u2019, says health minister<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A deal for Taiwan to buy 5m doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/how-does-the-pfizerbiontech-covid-vaccine-work-and-who-will-get-it\">BioNTech<\/a> is on hold, the island\u2019s health minister said, citing potential pressure from China for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s health minister, Chen Shih-chung, said officials were on the verge of announcing the deal in December when BioNTech pulled the plug.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/17\/taiwan-china-pressure-covid-vaccine-deal-biontech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan to buy the BioNTech shot has been delayed amid intervention by \u2018outside forces\u2019, says health ministerCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA deal for Taiwan to buy 5m doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany\u2019s BioNTec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066,299,74,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science","category-taiwan","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28580,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions\/28580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}