Taipei, Feb. 5 (CNA) Taiwan on Friday reported one new domestically transmitted case of COVID-19 and three imported cases of the disease, according to the latest update on the pandemic from the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
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Taiwan says to get share of 1.3 million COVID-19 vaccines via COVAX
FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
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TAIPEI: Taiwan will get a share of 1.3 million COVID-19 vaccine shots produced by AstraZeneca from the COVAX global vaccine programme, the government said on Thursday (Feb 4), but without providing a timeframe or further details.
Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention, with only 71 active cases, but it has not yet received any vaccines.
British man ninth to die of COVID-19 in Taiwan NOT MORE DEADLY: Although the man had the UK variant of the virus, the hospital could not conclude whether his death was related to it, the CECC said
Staff writer, with CNA
A British man in his 70s on Wednesday became the ninth person, and first foreign national, to die of COVID-19 in Taiwan, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
The man traveled from the UK on Dec. 18 last year to visit family, and had a sore throat and fatigue while in quarantine, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, told a news conference in Taipei.
2021/02/04 12:10 Taichung City Health Bureau. (Google Maps photo) Taichung City Health Bureau. (Google Maps photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A woman in Taichung has been fined NT$200,000 (US$7,156) for inviting her boyfriend over to her house while she was undergoing her mandatory 14-day quarantine. According to the Taichung Health Bureau, the woman had been asked to self-isolate at home for two weeks after returning from China on Jan. 26. However, she instead flouted public health measures and invited her boyfriend, a doctor, to spend two nights at her residence. The bureau on Wednesday (Feb. 3) issued the woman a NT$200,000 fine for violating quarantine rules, citing the Central Epidemic Command Center s (CECC) policy that all travelers to Taiwan must follow the principle of one person per residence for home isolation. It said the woman had endangered her community with her reckless behavior.