Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center removed (14-Apr-2021)
Cambodia from its list of medium risk countries, effective immediately, due to increasing coronavirus infections in the country. The latest list of the risk categories for countries is as follows:
Low risk:
2021/04/11 17:03 Chuang Jen-hsiang Chuang Jen-hsiang (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Sunday (April 11) announced one more COVID-19 death someone infected with the virus during the Taoyuan General Hospital cluster infection. The new fatality (case No. 889) was a Taiwanese man in his 60s. He had a history of chronic diseases and had contracted the virus while receiving other treatments, per CNA. In addition, CECC Spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) announced at a press briefing on Sunday afternoon that a Taiwanese woman in her 20s (case No. 1058) was the latest person in the country to be detected with the disease. Noting that she was an imported case, Chuang said the woman went to work in the U.S. in October of last year and came back to Taiwan on April 3.
Taipei, April 15 (CNA) Crew members of Taiwanese airlines who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be exempt from quarantine when they return to Taiwan, while those who are not vaccinated will also enjoy relaxed quarantine rules, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Wednesday.
Taiwan has been widely applauded for its management of the pandemic, with one of the lowest per capita COVID-19 rates in the world and life on the island largely returning to normal.
Just 11 people have died from COVID-19 in Taiwan since the pandemic began, an impressive feat for a country that never went into lockdown.
At the start of the pandemic, Taiwan was considered a high-risk country for COVID-19 due to its proximity to China and the frequent travel that takes place between the two countries.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has examined further just why Taiwan did so well at conquering COVID-19. The study’s authors, from a range of health institutes and hospitals in Taiwan and the US, compared the estimated effectiveness of two types of COVID-19 policy in the early months of the pandemic: case-based and population-based measures.
2021/04/15 14:43 Muslim women perform prayer called tarawih during first evening of Ramadan, at Al Mashun Great Mosque in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesi. Muslim women perform prayer called tarawih during first evening of Ramadan, at Al Mashun Great Mosque in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Thursday (April 15) confirmed one COVID-19 infection imported from Indonesia. During a press conference on Thursday, CECC Spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) announced one infection, the country s 1,068th. The latest case is a Taiwanese minor who recently returned from Indonesia, bringing Taiwan s total number of imported cases to 952. Chuang said that case No. 1,069 is a Taiwanese girl under the age of five who had been living in Indonesia for an extended period of time. On March 21, she began to experience a cough a