Taiwan's Foxconn and TSMC said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, putting the total cost of the highly politicized deal at around $350 million. The Taiwanese government has tried for months to buy the vaccine directly from BioNTech and has blamed China, which claims the self-ruled island as its own territory, for nixing an agreement the two sides were due to sign earlier this year. China denies the accusations. Last month, facing public pressure about the slow pace of Taiwan's inoculation program, the government agreed to allow Foxconn's founder Terry Gou, as well as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), to negotiate on its behalf for the vaccines.