Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) Taiwan reported a new imported case of COVID-19 on Friday involving an Indonesian national who arrived in the country last month to go to work on a fishing boat, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
NHRI Vice President Sytwu Huey-kang. CNA file photo
Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is planning to launch a public-private partnership to develop and produce antibody treatments against COVID-19, according to the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI).
Speaking to the media on Friday, NHRI Vice President Sytwu Huey-kang (司徒惠康) said the treatments, which will be used to treat COVID-19 patients and also provide short-term immunity for healthy individuals, are seen as a vital stopgap treatment until vaccines become widely available.
Sytwu said the NHRI, Academia Sinica, National Taiwan University Hospital and Chang Gung Medical Foundation each began working to develop COVID-19 antibody treatments last year, but their efforts have been largely uncoordinated.
Taipei, Jan. 14 (CNA) Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) on Thursday defended a decision not to make public the name of the hospital in which the two latest domestic COVID-19 cases work, saying that it was meant to prevent the hospital's other workers from being labeled.
2021/01/12 17:04 (IKEA photo) (IKEA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) IKEA and major malls in Taoyuan shut down for disinfection on Tuesday (Jan. 12) based on the movements of a doctor and nurse who have been confirmed with COVID-19. On Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 12), the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that a doctor (Case No. 838) had been infected with COVID-19 at a hospital in northern Taiwan. After contact tracing was carried out, the center discovered that his girlfriend, who is a nurse (Case No. 839) at the hospital, had also contracted the virus. When asked about the doctor s movements during a press conference on Tuesday, Health Minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said that based on a preliminary investigation, the physician, with the exception of times he had eaten out or drank coffee, almost always wore a mask when he ventured outside the hospital.