Taiwan says has asked Germany to help obtain COVID vaccines

Taiwan's Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Thursday that she had met with Germany's de facto ambassador in Taipei and asked him for Germany's help for Taiwan to obtain COVID-19 vaccines.

Germany, in a letter from its Economy Minister Peter Altmaier to Wang, has asked Taiwan to persuade Taiwanese manufacturers to help ease a shortage of semiconductor chips in the auto sector which is hampering its fledgling economic recovery from the pandemic.