Taiwan Concerned China May Have Blocked Vaccine Purchase
- Deal With BioNTech fell through, Taiwan health minister says
- Chen says efforts to buy vaccines from overseas will continue
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Taiwan’s attempts to purchase 5 million doses of BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine fell apart at the last minute, Taiwan’s health minister said Wednesday, voicing concern that political pressure from Beijing may have scuppered the deal.
Taiwan’s government was making final preparations to sign a deal with Germany-based BioNTech in January but then “things changed,” minister Chen Shih-chung said in an interview on radio station Hit FM Wednesday.