Taiwan Gets 1.1 Million AstraZeneca Doses From Japan

Workers unload a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived from Japan at the Taoyuan airport near Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, on July 8, 2021. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control via AP

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan has received 1.13 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from Japan in the second such donation this year.

The nation has benefited from vaccine diplomacy, receiving near 5 million doses from the United States and Japan following its worst outbreak starting in May.