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Taipei, May 8 (CNA) The wife of a China Airlines (CAL) pilot who has been confirmed as having COVID-19 recently visited a Taipei Fubon Bank branch in Neihu District in Taipei, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The woman in her 50s tested positive Saturday for COVID-19, as did her husband, a CAL pilot who the CECC said may have contracted the disease after coming into contact with another pilot.
While the CECC is still investigating whom the woman might have come into contact with, it disclosed as a precautionary measure that she had been to the bank s Neihu branch at around 11 a.m. on May 5.
TAIPEI, 7 May 2021: Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Centre
(CECC) reported that Covid-19 infections remained severe in Laos, and cases
rose rapidly in recent weeks across the country.
Laos successfully prevented Covid-19 from spilling over from
neighbours Cambodia, China, Myanmar,
Vietnam and Thailand for more than a year, ducking repeated infection waves.
However, that changed after 22 April, when cumulative cases stood at 60 but
quickly climbed to 1,072 by 4 May.
In response, the CECC raised the alert on Laos, moving it
from its list of medium-risk countries, effective since 5 May, to the highest
level three.
The CECC also reported that local cases in Bhutan continued
2021/05/06 15:02 Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport Hotel. Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport Hotel. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Thursday (May 6) announced one local COVID-19 case and 12 imported cases. During a press conference on Thursday, Health and Welfare Minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced that the new local coronavirus case is an employee of the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport Hotel, raising the total number of cases in the hotel cluster infection to six. Meanwhile, the imported cases include nine Filipinos, two Vietnamese, and an Indonesian, all of whom are migrant workers. Chen said that case No. 1,174 is a Taiwanese man in his 30s who works in the engineering department of the hotel. As part of his duties, he has frequently come in contact with cleaning department employees cases
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Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Taiwan on Friday confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 that originated in the Philippines, India and the United Kingdom but no new cases that were domestically transmitted, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
Three of the five new cases involved migrant workers from the Philippines. Two of them are men in their 30s, with one of them set to work as a crew member on a boat and the other as a fishing worker. The third is a Filipina in her 20s.
A total of 197 contacts of the three people have been identified and instructed to follow self-health management protocols, according to the CECC s press release.