The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is considering relaxing self-health management requirements for Taiwanese tourists returning from Palau after disappointing tour sales threaten the “travel bubble” agreement between the two countries.
The CECC made the remarks yesterday after the six travel agencies designated to arrange tours to Palau reported lackluster sales following the pilot tours on April 1, which were joined by 100 tourists.
Since the launch, the average load factor for flights to and from Palau was about 26 percent, China Airlines (CAL) said.
Travel operators have been urging the CECC to loosen the 14-day self-health management requirement for visitors
By Lin Hui-chin, Cheng Ming-hsiang and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerEligibility for COVID-19 vaccines was yesterday opened to an additional 125,000 people including members of the central and local governments, and those working at hospital facilities who did not qualify under the first two priority groups making 613,000 people eligible.
Officials get vaccinated as eligibility for jab expanded
By Lin Hui-chin, Cheng Ming-hsiang and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines was yesterday opened to an additional 125,000 people including members of the central and local governments, and those working at hospital facilities who did not qualify under the first two priority groups making 613,000 people eligible.
About 11,000 airline workers who fly internationally also became eligible, Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the Central Epidemic Command Center’s (CECC) spokesman, said yesterday.
About 90 percent of those airline employees are available to get inoculated as they are not on flights or under quarantine, he said, adding that the airlines can arrange vaccinations in line with work schedules.
COVID-19: CECC plans out-of-pocket shots for eligible people
APPOINTMENT NEEDED: Officials need to discuss the timing, cost and vaccine locations, and would reveal the details next week at the soonest, Chen Shih-chung said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said it plans to release 10,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine for people to get vaccinated at their own expense. It also said that 10 local government heads would be vaccinated tomorrow.
There would be eligibility requirements for people to get vaccinated out-of-pocket, such as a need to travel abroad to study, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC.