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Major Taiwanese tech companies have inked a deal to buy 10m vaccine doses for Taiwan, sidestepping months of complicated geopolitical wrangling between Beijing and Taipei.
The US$350m purchase from German manufacturer BioNTech, is split between TSMC, the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, and Foxconn, one of the world’s largest contract electronics makers, and its charity foundation. The two companies will donate the vaccines to Taiwan’s central epidemic command centre for distribution.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a post-Cabinet press conference on Monday that many government-employed workers at the border have been vaccinated but privately-employed workers are lagging behind.
“Our view is that the uptake in that group hasn’t been as high and so now we are taking the next step to place an order upon them.”
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