Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/TAIPEI: Taiwan has offered to provide China with assistance to help it deal with a surge in Covid-19 cases but Chinese officials have not yet responded.
China has scrapped its stringent Covid-19 controls the previous month after the protests against them, abandoning the policy that had shielded its 1.4 billion people from the covid virus for three years.
Central Epidemic Command Centre, Head of Taiwan’s, Victor Wang, said that the Central News Agency sent an email to Chinese officials in this week and asked them how Taiwan could help with the covid cases in China.
Increasing cases in China sparked concerns from the World Health Organization that Beijing is under-reporting covid virus deaths. Victor said that Taiwan sent the email to China in early December to “remind” officials there about the community outbreak and severe cases among the children.
Not clear if Beijing could accept offers
Hsueh Jui-yuan Health Minster said that Taiwan could offer medication and vaccines to China but it’s not clear if Beijing could accept it, according to the Central News Agency. China and Taiwan have repeatedly sparred over their respective measures to control the spread of covid-19.
