Question / Taiwan: Coronavirus

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
UIN HL1573, tabled on 29 June 2021

Question
Lord Truscott
Non-affiliated

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to supply Taiwan with COVID-19 vaccines; and what is the timetable on any such plans.

Answer
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Conservative

Answered on
13 July 2021

The UK remains committed to equitable access to safe and effective vaccines and the Prime Minister has stated that we will share vaccines with COVAX and has called on G7 leaders to vaccinate the world by end of next year. We will continue to discuss this issue with our G7 partners and will issue details of the quantities and timeframe for sharing vaccine doses soon.

Taiwan has had one of the lowest incidences of Covid-19 in the world since the outbreak of the pandemic. We are continuing to engage with the relevant authorities locally through the British Office in Taipei as it faces its first significant occurrence of community transmission of the virus. Taiwan has so far received 609,600 doses through the COVAX platform. We will continue to work with all of our international partners to deliver a strong global response to the pandemic.