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Russian dancers positive for virus
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported seven imported cases of COVID-19 infection, including four members of a Russian ballet company that was originally scheduled to perform its first show in Taipei yesterday, as it extended a temporary entry ban on Indonesian migrant workers.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that all of the seven had provided a negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result issued within three days of boarding a plane to Taiwan and that only one of them developed symptoms during quarantine.
CAL and EVA ‘ready’ to transport vaccines
READY FOR COLD: EVA said that it was confident it could handle Pfizer’s ultra-cold vaccines with its cold-chain delivery service, although foreign airlines might be used
By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporter
China Airlines Ltd (CAL, 中華航空) and EVA Airways Corp (長榮航空) yesterday said that they are ready and willing to transport COVID-19 vaccines, although they had not received assignments from the government.
The airlines’ remarks came after a report by the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper) said that the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) had asked EVA to install liquid nitrogen storage to facilitate carrying vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech, which must be kept at about minus-75°C.