One of Taiwan’s few remaining allies has warned it may be forced to switch diplomatic allegiance from Taipei to Beijing to gain access to Chinese coronavirus vaccines.
Carlos Alberto Madero, Honduras’s chief cabinet co-ordinator who is akin to a prime minister, told the Financial Times in an interview that the country wanted to avoid breaking longstanding ties with Taipei. But he warned that access to vaccines was “much more urgent than anything else”.
The central American nation has been unable to buy adequate stocks of Covid-19 jabs and has suffered delays in deliveries on signed contracts. It has inoculated fewer than 1 per cent of its 9m people.
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