CECC may allow companies to rapid test employees for COVID-19
05/28/2021 05:38 PM
At a testing site in New Taipei. CNA photo May 28, 2021
Taipei, May 28 (CNA) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said on Friday that it had agreed in principle to allow companies to rapid test their employees for COVID-19, but emphasized that the tests would have to be administered by medical personnel and that the plans were not yet final.
With the rapid escalation of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, the CECC, labor and economics ministries have met to discuss calls by some Taiwanese corporations to be allowed to screen their employees for the disease.
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