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District 3522 Taiwan - Zone 9 72 Clubs 2,807 Members
as of 28 Feb 2022

Lee, Mu-Hsiung Yeh, Tsai-Chen
(Michael) (Jason)
District Governor District Governor
2021-22 2022-23
D.3522 D.3522

3522 Donates 170,000 medical masks to Japan

In August 2021, Taiwan had lifted many
restrictions and lowered the level 3 alert to
level 2 so that the life and economic there could
gradually back to the normal and decreased
the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic while
Japan was announcing the state of emergency
several times with the spikes of more than
10,000 cases daily. The Rotarians in Rotary
District 3522 then started a project to donate
medical masks to Japan as a gift in return to
the people and the government of Japan for fight against the coronavirus.
their previous and timely help to Taiwan in the As early as in mid-May 2021, Taiwan was
experiencing the surging number of cases and
deaths of COVID-19, shortage of the vaccines,
and seriously affected activities and economic
due to the fatal disease. One month later, it
appreciated an announcement from Japan
that 1.24 million doses of AstraZeneca (AZ)
vaccine would be donated to Taiwan, and since
then actually more than 4 million doses were
shipped from Japan to the once-called Formosa
Island.

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