As more grassroots level police officers are tested positive for #COVID19 in #Taiwan, the CECC announced that more than half of the police officers will be the prioritized groups for vaccination. More than 80% of the firefighters are in the same group. udn.com/news/story/120…
Additionally, #Taiwan local news outlet United Daily reported that COVAX told them that there are 410,000 more AZ #COVID19 vaccines that could be expected to arrive in Taiwan by the end of June. udn.com/news/story/120…
Meanwhile, #Taiwan is also hoping that its own #COVID19 vaccines can be rolled out as soon as the end of July. But since it is still between stage 2 and stage 3 trial, the executive yuan said it will require the government's approval in order to be used in the case of emergency.
#Taiwan's government has rolled out relevant regulation stating that any #COVID19 vaccine that has passed a stage two trial with 3000 people can start to mass-produce once they pass one-month monitoring to ensure that all participants of the trial are safe ...
A very funny yet truthful collection of the phenomenon of mixing Mandarin words with English words, which are very common in office/social/daily settings in #Taiwan.
The reason why it's called "晶晶體" is because a celebrity in #Taiwan called 李晶晶 was found mixing many English words into her Mandarin during her interview with @voguemagazine in #Taiwan back in 2016, so netizens dubbed the phenomenon of mixing English words into Mandarin ...
... as 晶晶體. It usually would be used to mock local Taiwanese who love mixing common English words into their everyday Mandarin conversation. So honestly, if someone said you are speaking 晶晶體 in #Taiwan, it's not necessarily a good thing.
"Lauded for its handling of the pathogen, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for all seven of the biggest declines this month in the measure of the best and worst places to be in the pandemic."
"#Taiwan and Japan dropped out of the top 10 amid sluggish inoculation drives and resurgent cases, while some of the world’s fiercest outbreaks held down places in Southeast and South Asia."
From @BBCWorld: A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition technologies intended to reveal a person's state of emotion has allegedly been tested on #Uyghurs. bbc.com/news/technolog…
"A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province. A human rights advocate who was shown the evidence described it as shocking."
"The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories," he said.
The new political party "Piráti a Starostové" in the Czech Republic released its policy whitepaper last week, promising if they came into power after the House election in October, they would deepen trade and diplomatic interaction with #Taiwan, ...cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
... and make democracy and human rights the basis of their foreign policy. They hope to support Czech businesses and cities to initiate cooperation with #Taiwan. The new party is currently leading in the poll.
In the whitepaper, the new political party emphasized that #China is an authoritarian country that surveils its own people and they impose the "One Country, Two Systems" model on #HongKong and #Taiwan against people's wills.
Meanwhile, experts from the @WHO-led group who went to #China's Wuhan for the initial investigation of #COVID19 origin earlier this year said a follow-up trip could be helpful to gather additional research on the origins of the disease, ...usnews.com/news/world/art…
... but should be separate from any audit of information provided by Beijing.
Discussions about the outbreak gained renewed attention this week as U.S. intelligence agencies examine reports that researchers at a Chinese virology laboratory in Wuhan were seriously ill in 2019 a month before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported.
On the second day of #WHA, the US and other countries called for a more in-depth investigation of the origin of #COVID19, after the earlier mission of @WHO experts proved inconclusive. france24.com/en/live-news/2…
"We underscore the importance of a robust comprehensive and expert-led inquiry into the origins of Covid-19," US representative Jeremy Konyndyk told the World Health Assembly (WHA).
Australia, Japan and Portugal were among other countries to call for more progress on the investigation, while the British representative urged for any probe to be "timely, expert-driven and grounded in robust science".