60% full vaccination needed to lift border controls: Taiwan official

Taiwan can only afford to consider loosening its border restrictions once 70 percent of the population has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot and over 60 percent are fully vaccinated, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Monday.

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