About 46 percent of the government’s quarantine rooms made available for returning residents were booked on the first day they were open for reservation, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, as it reported three new imported cases of COVID-19.
Tightened quarantine regulations, requiring inbound passengers to be mainly quarantined in hotels and centralized facilities, or “one person per housing unit” if in private housing, are to be implemented from Friday.
The CECC on Wednesday announced that it would make 1,500 to 2,000 centralized quarantine facility rooms available to returning Taiwan residents, as the Lunar New Year holiday nears, and on
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported three new imported cases of COVID-19, arrivals from Nigeria, Egypt and the US, bringing the total number of cases in Taiwan to 825.
A Taiwanese businessman in his 70s began to experience fever, shortness of breath and fatigue on Dec. 24 last year while based in Nigeria, the center said in a news release.
Three days later, when he sought local treatment after his symptoms worsened, he was diagnosed with pneumonia, the center said.
After the diagnosis, he tested negative for COVID-19 twice, but was immediately hospitalized and quarantined upon returning to Taiwan on a
CECC finds fifth case of UK strain
STAYING VIGILANT: The center tested 212 people who entered Taiwan in late December with a UK travel history, with 210 testing negative, while two are being processed
Staff writer with CNA
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday confirmed that a fifth person in Taiwan is infected with a COVID-19 variant first detected in the UK.
A British man in his 30s, who arrived on Wednesday last week to work, tested positive for the disease on Saturday while in quarantine at a government center, the CECC said.
Genome sequencing concluded that he was infected with the new variant, Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman, told a news conference in Taipei.
Virus Outbreak: CECC to accept central quarantine applications
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
People who are returning to Taiwan and wish to stay at a centralized facility for their mandatory 14-day quarantine upon arrival can, starting tomorrow, apply online for a room, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
The CECC last week announced that starting from Friday next week, inbound passengers would not only have to provide a negative COVID-19 result from a polymerase chain reaction test issued within three days before boarding a plane to Taiwan, but would also need to provide a quarantine location certification document.
Virus Outbreak: CECC reports six new imported cases
QUARANTINED: Three of the six patients had low cycle thresholds, suggesting recent infections, even though they had provided negative PCR tests, Chuang Jen-hsiang said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported six imported cases of COVID-19 from Indonesia, the Philippines, the UK and the US three of whom showed symptoms in Taiwan.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman, said one of the cases is a British man in his 30s who arrived in Taiwan for work on Wednesday.