Rapid COVID-19 testing stations should be established at Taiwan’s airports and harbors to protect Kinmen and Lienchiang (Matsu) counties from an outbreak, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus said yesterday.
The caucus made the call at an online news conference at the Legislative Yuan a day after the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) overturned an order by the Kinmen County Government requiring arriving passengers to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test result issued within three days of their flight, or undergo a rapid test at Kinmen Airport.
The CECC said the order contravened the third item of Article 37 of the
Tsai Ing-wen’s approval falls to a 21-month low
PREMIER SU ALSO HIT: The Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation said that after a long stretch of favorable governance, the administration is being put to the test
By Wu Su-wei and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) public approval rating has dropped to a 21-month low following power outages and an increase in locally transmitted COVID-19 infections, a survey showed yesterday.
The Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation commissioned Focus Survey Research to conduct the survey, which was done by telephone from Monday to Thursday last week.
Tsai’s approval rating dropped to 45.7 percent, the lowest it has been in 21 months, foundation chairman Michael You (游盈隆) said.
TAIPEI (The China Post) â The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC, ä¸å¤®æµè¡ç«æ ææ®ä¸å¿) announced on Monday 542 cases of domestic infections, namely 281 new cases and 261 added retroactively.
The CECC pointed out that the new 281 domestic cases â 144 men and 137 women â are aged between 5 and over 90 years old. They began to develop symptoms/were tested between May 7 and May 24.
Regarding those new indigenous cases, New Taipei City reported most cases (154), followed by Taipei (49), Taoyuan City (16), Tainan (10), Keelung (10), Changhua (10), Taichung City (9), Pingtung County (4), Hsinchu City (4), Kaohsiung City (3), Yilan County (3), Taitung County (2), Nantou County (2), Miaoli County (2), Hsinchu County (1), Yunlin County (1) and Hualien County (1).
Of the 261 cases added retroactively to the tally â 162 men and 99 women, they are aged between 10 and over 90 years old. They began to develop symptoms/were tested be
TAIPEI, May 24 (Reuters) - Taiwan s government on Monday nullified a decision by an island that sits close to China to mandate COVID-19 tests for all arrivals, rebuking it for not following the law even as authorities deal with a rise in domestic infections.
Taiwan is dealing with a spike in cases after months of keeping the pandemic well under control, with restrictions in place across the island to limit gatherings, schools closed and people told to work from home as much as possible.
While the government is increasing testing, it has been criticised by opposition parties for delays, especially over the weekend when the health minister announced a regression calibration of case numbers that increased its infection toll.