The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 302 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, 331 backlogged cases and 11 deaths, and announced that five restrictions are to be tightened nationwide during the extended level 3 warning period until June 14.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that the new local cases are 158 males and 144 females aged from under five to over 90, and the onset of symptoms was between May 8 and Tuesday.
Most of those infected live in New Taipei City (152 cases) or Taipei (87 cases), he said, adding that 21 live
Taipei, May 26 (CNA) The local government in Kinmen opened a rapid testing site for COVID-19 at the county's airport on Wednesday, to screen arriving passengers, after it obtained permission from the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) to do so.
Arts and cultural institutions and schools have changed plans after the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Tuesday extended the nationwide level 3 COVID-19 alert to June 14.
The ceremony for the 32nd Golden Melody Awards, originally scheduled to be held at the Taipei Arena on June 26, has been postponed, the Ministry of Culture said yesterday.
Details, including when and how the ceremony would be held, are to be announced at a later date, it said.
The ministry has planned several possible solutions, it said, adding that it would settle on a new time and format that would comply with the CECC’s