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Taiwan offers China help again to deal with COVID surge

A staff worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks next to people waiting outside a funeral home, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Shanghai, China, January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Staff

Taiwan has again offered to provide China with assistance to help it deal with a surge in COVID-19 cases but Chinese authorities have not yet responded, official Taiwan media reported late on Thursday.

China scrapped its stringent COVID controls last month after protests against them, abandoning a policy that had shielded its 1.4 billion population from the virus for three years.

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