Only 32% of Taiwan's healthcare workers willing to get AstraZeneca vaccine

CECC head claims percentage willing to receive AstraZeneca shot 'quite high'

By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2021/03/17 11:37

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As inoculations of the AstraZeneca vaccine are being suspended in some European countries over a potentially deadly side effect, less than one-third of Taiwanese healthcare professionals are willing to be the first recipients of the jab in Taiwan.

On Tuesday (March 16), the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) released the results of a survey of medical care workers on their willingness to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Of those surveyed, 90 percent, or about 183,000, have responded thus far.

Among those respondents, only 32.7 percent, or 59,984, indicated that they would be willing to get the vaccine. Of those, 43 percent are frontline healthcare workers and 28 percent are second-line workers.

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