The government has begun inoculating priority categories 9 and 10, which total around 940,000 people. Most people we interviewed reported a smooth vaccination experience.
People were waiting in line to have their identity and body condition checked before getting a COVID jab on their arm.
Citizen 1:”(COVID-19 vaccines) are an unknown, so you can't help but worry. You just have to do your own homework.”
Citizen 2:”Only a minority of people get (side effects from the vaccine), so you can't keep stressing yourself out about that. If you can get a vaccine, get it.”
The CECC says around 940,000 people in Categories 9 and 10 have registered for a vaccine on the second round of registration.
Hsieh Tsang-tang, Superintendent, Taipei Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital:”We will be vaccinating 1,020 people in the 50-64 age group, Mondays through Saturdays, during this wave.”
Although the government does not allow mixed vaccine doses, cases have been reported all over Taiwan. In Taipei, a quarantine taxi driver that got AZ for his first dose in May managed to get a Moderna dose for his second on July 5. Afterward, he proudly told medical personnel that his first dose was AZ and bragged about his exploits to his colleagues, dubbing himself "Rulebreaker No. 1."
Cheng Li-chia, Chair, Taipei Motor Drivers Union:”He seemed avoiding to have any related discussion. He didn't show his first vaccination card until he'd gotten his (second) dose.”
Taipei Songshan Airport, meanwhile, has notified the members of the self-regulatory airport taxi drivers' committee that they must have received at least one vaccine dose in order to work at the airport starting Aug. 1. The order angered many drivers.
Lin Feng-tsang, Chair, Songshan Airport Taxi Drivers Self-regulatory Committee:”We are giving them a priority for vaccinations and allowing them to get vaccinated right there in the terminal, but some of them still won't get vaccinated.”
The Civil Aeronautics Administration says all airport drivers in Taoyuan, Taichung, and Kaohsiung have already been vaccinated and Taipei can hopefully join them shortly.
醫生仔細核對身份資料並一一詢問民眾的身體狀況，確認沒問題後護理人員就按照順序為民眾施打新冠疫苗。
民眾：「（打疫苗）這是一個未知的東西嘛，所以當然會有點擔心。不過就是會問很多，相關的朋友廠商等等之類的。
民眾：「（打疫苗副作用）症狀應該也算少數，所以自己不會一直煩惱這個事情，覺得有疫苗就先打比較好。」
COVID-19公費疫苗預約平台16號開打第九類、第十類AZ疫苗，第二輪完成預約人數約有94萬人，許多民眾一早就按照預約時間到接種站準備接種。
台北長庚醫院院長 謝燦堂：「這一波我們就是先接種的就是，50歲到64歲的然後每天施打1020個人，禮拜一到禮拜六。」
就在國內新冠疫苗陸續到貨的同時，各地疫苗混打亂象不斷，繼先前高雄、台中發生混打案例後，台北也有防疫計程車司機5月才接種過AZ，7月5日又前往內湖高工接種莫德納疫苗，且打完後，才向醫護人員自爆他打過AZ，還跟同行炫耀，自稱是政府明令禁止混打疫苗政策下第一個突破規定的。
台北市汽車駕駛員職業工會理事長 鄭力嘉：「可能有故意或是，有點在避開這樣子的話題，因為那天的狀況比較明顯是，他打完以後，他才把他另外一張黃卡拿出來。」
此外，松山機場12日也發文給機場排班計程車自律委員會，因應Delta變異株在全球擴散且傳播力強，防疫車隊為接觸入境旅客第一線高風險工作人員，若8月1號起，未接種第一劑疫苗的防疫車隊司機，將不得載送松山機場入境旅客，不過該公文也引來司機不滿。
松山機場計程車自律委員會長 林鳳蒼：「我們都已經就近在航空站裡面，讓他們來打了。優先給他們來打了，車子停去那邊打一下而已，他們還是不去打。」
對此，民航局表示，由於國內疫情尚未完全緩和，加上疫苗已逐漸普及，國內有防疫計程車隊的機場中，桃園、台中、高雄三處機場之防疫計程車隊，司機都已全數施打疫苗，基於維護司機之安全，台北國際航空站才希望能透過此一方式，鼓勵司機儘速施打疫苗。