On October 19, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) pointed out that online appointments for the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) vaccine, the second dose of the AstraZeneca (AZ), and the second dose of the Moderna vaccine will be open in the 12th round of bookings on the COVID-19 Vaccination Registration and Reservation system (https://1922.gov.tw/; "the System") and that vaccination will take place in two phases.

The CECC has made coordination efforts with related venues and medical personnel to set up five additional vaccination sites in Taipei City for the BNT vaccine. The five locations are the first floor of the Ministry of Health and Welfare Building, the first floor of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications Building, Huashan Creative Park W2, the 1st Exhibition Hall of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, and the Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab. After the efforts, a total of 45,280 new appointment slots for the BNT vaccine are now available.