Government to pay out NT$20,000 in COVID-19 vaccine case

The Ministry of Health and Welfare has agreed to pay NT$20,000 (US$649.65) under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) to a Taichung teenager who developed myocarditis and pericarditis after receiving the Pfizer-BNT vaccine.

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