GZ Starts Free COVID-19 Vaccinations for Taiwan Compatriots
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Free and voluntary COVID-19 vaccinations for Taiwan compatriots began in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on Thursday.
The first batch of vaccines serving Taiwan compatriots does not require residence permits or medical-insurance certificates.
They can register for vaccinations through the local Taiwan Affairs Office. Guangzhou began inoculating Taiwan compatriots against COVID-19 on Monday.
Eligible Taiwan compatriots can make appointments, and will receive the same treatment, policy and procedure as mainlanders.
As of Wednesday, more than 350 Taiwan compatriots have been inoculated voluntarily.
"Many of my mainland friends have given me positive feedbacks of the vaccine developed by the country before I was vaccinated. They have proved it is safe so we came for vaccination today," said a woman.
A medical worker injects a man with a dose of COVID-19 vaccine on a mobile vaccination vehicle outside the Donghua Gate of the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China, April 13, 2021.
The bus-like facilities, equipped with vaccination stations, medical refrigerators and first-aid equipment, have been rolled out in different districts of Beijing to save time and improve inoculation efficiency.
In Shanghai, residents from the island of Taiwan aged between 18 and 57 have been able to apply for vaccination and they can get the vaccines for free, just like local Shanghai residents.
Lee Cheng-hung, president of the Association of Taiwan Investment Enterprises on the Mainland (ATIEM), received a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a community health center in Shanghai on the first day that the reservations opened.
"I was very much looking forward to this so I made a reservation immediately,” Lee told the media.
Both Guangdong and Shanghai, home to myriad Taiwan-funded companies and joint ventures, have registered a large number of investors, business representatives and their family members, as well as scholars, tourists, teachers and students from Taiwan.
The moves in Shanghai and Guangdong came after Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said on April 14 that people from the island of Taiwan on the mainland can get COVID-19 vaccines with the same treatment as their mainland counterparts.
Before the announcement, some of the people from the island of Taiwan living on the mainland who face a high risk from infection had already got COVID-19 vaccines during the country’s emergency vaccination program.
In Tianjin, residents from the island of Taiwan who work in the cold chain and logistics industries became the first group allowed to make appointments for vaccination in the northern port city in March, while all the more than 5,000 Taiwan compatriots in Tianjin have been able to register in their residential communities and with neighborhood committees for the vaccination since the beginning of April.
Source: ECNS, Global Times
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