{"id":32513,"date":"2021-05-27T17:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/taiwan-president-accuses-china-interfering-covid-vaccine-deals"},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:24:30","slug":"taiwan-accuses-china-of-interfering-with-covid-vaccine-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32513","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan accuses China of interfering with Covid vaccine deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says agreement with German firm BioNTech has been delayed after Beijing intervention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president has accused China of interfering in its vaccine acquisition programme, as the island continues to battle hundreds of daily new cases of Covid-19 with low supplies of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has received about 700,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine so far, for a population of 24 million. While the island had been largely Covid-free since the pandemic began, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/how-did-covid-slip-through-taiwans-gold-standard-defences\">an outbreak in late April<\/a> has so far infected more than 5,000 people, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/26\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-found-in-at-least-53-countries-calls-grow-for-new-inquiry-into-covid-origins?CMP=share_btn_tw&amp;page=with:block-60adf0448f086d71cc15aefe#block-60adf0448f086d71cc15aefe\">killed at least<\/a> 47. Less than 2% of the population are vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/27\/taiwan-president-accuses-china-interfering-covid-vaccine-deals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says agreement with German firm BioNTech has been delayed after Beijing interventionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan\u2019s president has accused China of interfering in its vaccine acquisition programme, as the i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,1640,6,50,1066,346,647,79,74,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-astrazeneca","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-society","category-taiwan","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32513","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32514,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32513\/revisions\/32514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}