Taiwan will open six mass COVID-19 vaccination sites for children at the beginning of June. Health authorities say the sites will begin operating on June 1 in central Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung.
Children aged 6 and over will be able to get doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children without making an appointment in advance.
The opening of the new vaccination sites comes as Taiwan goes through its biggest wave of local COVID-19 infections. Almost two-thirds of the population has had three doses of a COVID vaccine. But children aged between 6 and 11 only became eligible for inoculation in April, so fewer of them have been protected.
On Monday, Taiwan received another shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for children, totalling more than 300,000 doses. Health authorities will distribute them to the six new vaccination sites according to demand.