2021/04/23 16:43 FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2020 file photo, a man riding a bicycle takes photographs in a virtually empty Grand Place in Brussels. The European . FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2020 file photo, a man riding a bicycle takes photographs in a virtually empty Grand Place in Brussels. The European Union unveiled Wednesday May 13, 2020, its plan to help confinement-tortured citizens across the 27 nations salvage their summer vacations after months of coronavirus lockdown and resurrect Europe’s badly battered tourism industry. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Friday (April 23) announced two local and two imported coronavirus cases.
2021/04/23 14:13 CECC head Chen Shih-chung. (YouTube, CECC screenshot) CECC head Chen Shih-chung. (YouTube, CECC screenshot) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Friday (April 23) announced two new local cases of COVID-19 who, along with an infected pilot, went to the Taipei Grand Mosque on April 16. Health Minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced the infections at a press conference. The latest local cases are tied to an Indonesian cargo pilot who had just been diagnosed overseas. The CECC announced that on Wednesday (April 21), it received notice from an airline that an Indonesian cargo pilot in his 40s had flown to Australia Tuesday (April 20). Once there, he began to experience a sore throat and soon tested positive for COVID-19.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported four new cases of COVID-19, including one local case.
The local case is a family member of an Indonesian pilot who works for China Airlines (華航) and tested positive for COVID-19 in Australia, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news briefing in Taipei yesterday.
The pilot, who is in his 40s, on Tuesday reported an itchy throat during a layover in Australia, upon which he was tested, Chen said.
The local case, a male teenager, is a close family member of the pilot, and as the
2021/04/23 15:43 Taipei Grand Mosque. Taipei Grand Mosque. (Wikimedia Commons photo) TAPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced Friday (April 23) that three people infected with COVID-19 had recently visited major mosques in Taipei and Taoyuan as well as a PX Mart. At a press conference on Friday, Health Minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced two local cases of COVID-19. The latest local cases are tied to an Indonesian cargo pilot who was diagnosed overseas. The CECC announced it had received notice from an airline Wednesday (April 21) that an Indonesian cargo pilot in his 40s had flown to Australia on Tuesday (April 20). Once in Australia, he began to experience a sore throat and soon tested positive for COVID-19.