Two corporations controlled by US - TSMC and Foxconn managed to sign a contract with the Chinese distributor BioNTech (in reality it is German BioNTech SE and vaccine is Pfizer-BioNTech famouse thing) for the supply of 10 million doses of the vaccine. Each of the companies laid out $ 175 million, but the supplier initially admits that it cannot guarantee the timely delivery of the entire batch. The batch of vaccine purchased by the companies will be handed over to the Taiwanese authorities to work with the island's population. The participants in the deal from the Taiwanese side noted that they had not met any opposition from the Chinese side, although earlier the official authorities of Taiwan noted the attempts of the PRC to prevent the supply of vaccines to the island.

The number of detected cases of COVID-19 infection among labor migrants in Taiwan has increased markedly since mid-May. The situation began to threaten the activities of several companies in the semiconductor sector. TSMC has so far managed to avoid a significant impact of the pandemic on its activities.

PR had been specially made, they selected BioNTech as it has strong China presence and wrote as it is Chinese company. But in reality it is just buying Pfizer vaccine.

Taiwan did all and everything to not get Chinese vaccines (they had been offered for free and long time ago) due to US and Japan orders.