2021/01/25 12:07 People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus at a night market in Taipei. People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus at a night market in Taipei. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan can help remedy defects in medical research for Western countries that spring from ethnic discrepancies, said an expert from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. David C. Chang (張智威), an associate professor at MGH, pointed out that medical narratives over the past two centuries have been dominated by European countries and the U.S. The studies have failed to factor in ethnic differences, particularly for Asians, he said in a speech delivered at the CommonWealth Economic Forum in Taipei last week.
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The coronavirus pandemic could have been contained if the authorities in Wuhan had notified the World Health Organization earlier and allowed an expert team to investigate in December 2019, according to Dr Chen Chien-jen, Taiwan’s former vice-president and health minister who made his name during the SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] outbreak nearly 20 years ago.
“Transparency and openness is very important for the containment of infectious diseases,” Dr Chen told Al Jazeera in an interview. “If the situation in Wuhan was very well reported to the World Health Organisation and the WHO organised a team and went to Wuhan in mid-December 2019, I think the disease could have been contained and no other countries would have suffered.”
Taipei, Jan. 20 (CNA) All hospitals in Taiwan have been asked to tighten their restrictions on visits to inpatients, with immediate effect, amid a growing outbreak spawned by a cluster infection at Taoyuan General Hospital.
The Taoyuan General Hospital. CNA file photo
Taipei, Jan. 19 (CNA) Major hospitals in Taoyuan and Taipei have tightened their restrictions on visits to inpatients following a rising COVID-19 outbreak in a cluster of domestic infections that began with a doctor who contracted the virus while treating a coronavirus patient at Taoyuan General Hospital.
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital said Tuesday that those wishing to visit inpatients must first telephone a nursing station or use the hospital s online service application one day ahead of time to make an appointment.
No appointment will be accepted on the actual day of a visit, said the hospital, which is some 24 kilometers from the location of the latest cluster outbreak, which had affected nine people as of Tuesday.