Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Thursday that Taiwan has successfully contained the spread of COVID-19, and the time has come to shift the response posture from defense to offense, specifically through relief and stimulus measures. He instructed ministries and agencies to review all tasks and responsibilities under their jurisdictions and actively prepare resources ahead of time. There can be no slacking off, he emphasized.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is launching a third wave of international humanitarian assistance in response to the continued spread of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, donating 7.07 million face masks to the United States, European Union and its member states, diplomatic allies, New Southbound Policy partner countries, and African and Middle Eastern nations.
Taiwan will start a third round of mask donations soon, giving more than 7 million surgical face masks to countries around the world to help with their response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday. Of the total 7.07 million masks, 2.28 million will be donated to the United States federal government and American states hardest hit by the pandemic, MOFA spokeswoman Joanne Ou (歐江安) said.
On May 2, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported that 375 additional cases related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were reported on May 1.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has introduced a special section on its website titled “The Taiwan Model for Combating COVID-19,” an English page that tells foreign readers about Taiwan’s so-far successful approach to containing the global outbreak.
Speaking at the weekly Cabinet meeting after a briefing by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the COVID-19 outbreak and Taiwan’s response, Premier Su Tseng-chang on Thursday noted that four consecutive days have passed without a single new confirmed case, and 17 days without any new locally transmitted cases.
An online workshop on combating COVID-19 disinformation and strengthening media literacy in the Indo Pacific held under the Taiwan-U.S. Global Cooperation and Training Framework was staged April 29 in Taipei City.
Taiwan’s Minister of Health and Welfare Shih-Chung Chen and Secretary Alex Azar II of the United States Department of Health and Human Services held a bilateral virtual meeting at 8:00 p.m. on April 27, Taiwan time (8:00 a.m. April 27, Eastern Standard Time).
Taiwan could see its surgical face mask production top 19 million per day by mid-May after 22 additional production lines went into operation, Economic Affairs Minister Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) said Tuesday. Speaking during a radio interview, he said that the 19 million daily output is only a conservative estimate, expressing optimism that the 22 additional production lines could exceed that number once they are running smoothly.
Taiwan's government has reasserted its sovereignty over the South China Sea and called on all claimants of the disputed waters to exercise restraint amid rising tensions. In a statement released late Friday, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) expressed "stern protest and concerns" on the actions and statements of some countries in the region pertaining to the South China Sea.
