Coronavirus: hundreds of Taiwanese book ‘Air V&V’ trips to Guam to get vaccinated

[Hamartia Antidote]

Hundreds of Taiwanese book ‘Air V&V’ trips to Guam to get vaccinated

Under Guam’s vacation and vaccination programme, visitors could receive Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson jabs.

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The US Pacific territory of Guam is preparing to offer visitors a Covid-19 vaccination with their holiday, in a bid to restart its struggling tourism industry. Photo: AFP

Hundreds of Taiwanese people eager to get a coronavirus vaccine have booked tours to Guam after the US Pacific territory offered jabs to foreign visitors, a travel agency said on Friday.

Tiny Guam, for which tourism is a major economic driver, has limited Covid-19 infections and a high vaccination rate among the local population.

Dubbed “Air V&V” – vacation and vaccination – the new programme is primarily aimed at US expatriates in the Asia-Pacific region, although other nationalities can join.

Participants can choose between the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

Of the three, only Moderna is available in Taiwan as the island has been struggling to secure enough vaccine supplies
.

Just 9 per cent of Taiwan’s 23.5 million people had been vaccinated by Thursday, according to the health ministry.

Lion Travel, one of the biggest tour operators in Taiwan, said all 439 slots in its first four packages to Guam starting on July 6 had been sold.

The packages cover flights and hotels, with prices starting at NT$45,900, (US$1400), excluding the cost of Covid-19 tests.

The company also offers seven-day and 22-day trips and expects a revenue of NT$140 million if the packages are fully booked.

“We will discuss with airlines to operate two additional direct flights on July 26 and August 12 to meet market demand,” it said in a statement.

Interest in vaccination tours was boosted following the Guam government’s decision to exempt visitors who can show negative coronavirus test results from quarantine from July 4, it added.
According to the Guam Visitors Bureau, eligible travellers can obtain a
Covid-19 vaccine
shot the day after their arrival and freely tour the island after that.


Taiwan had only received 726,000 vaccine doses before the US and Japan recently donated 2.5 million and 1.24 million doses, respectively.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

80,000 prople from Taiwan went to Amoy and Shanghai in China and got vaccinated for FREE.

 

[GHALIB]

good strategy .

 

[Hack-Hook]

go any where you want just get the damn shot. world vaccine production is enough to vaccinate more than half the world population till the end of the year but sadly for greed and political reasons 2/3rd of the world have no hope of getting that shot and its one of the reason we see mutated variant emerge we let the virus thrive in population and have time for mutation. if every one get immunized then the virus will have no host to mutate in

 

[huckyang]

go any where you want just get the damn shot. world vaccine production is enough to vaccinate more than half the world population till the end of the year but sadly for greed and political reasons 2/3rd of the world have no hope of getting that shot and its one of the reason we see mutated variant emerge we let the virus thrive in population and have time for mutation. if every one get immunized then the virus will have no host to mutate in

Shame to even mentioned Guam. Guam does not belong to USA. It belong to Guam people. Britian knew colonisation is wrong when will US give up colonisation?

 

[Hack-Hook]

Shame to even mentioned Guam. Guam does not belong to USA. It belong to Guam people. Britian knew colonisation is wrong when will US give up colonisation?

Britain still hold some key point around the world