Mayday concert on Dec. 31, 2020. Photo courtesy of B’in Music
Taipei, Jan. 1 (CNA) Five people in Taiwan who attended a New Year s Eve concert in violation of COVID-19 protocols were caught Thursday by a mobile phone-based electronic fence launched by Taiwan s health authorities.
The individuals were spotted at the concert within 30 minutes after it started by Skynet, an electronic fence that relies on GPS location tracking to enforce quarantine or health management restrictions, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The violators, who attended the year-end concert in Taoyuan featuring the Taiwanese pop band Mayday, were required to follow self-health management guidelines.
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Taipei, Jan. 1 (CNA) A Taiwanese who recently tested positive for COVID-19 in Shanghai was a previous patient who recovered from the disease in Taiwan and is no longer contagious, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) confirmed Friday.
It is likely that the individual, a man in his 30s, received the weak positive test result in Shanghai on Dec. 30 due to the remaining existence of dead virus, said Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞), deputy chief of the CECC s medical response division, at a news conference.
It usually takes 80-100 days for patients to completely release the virus even after their recovery, which makes it possible for test results to continue rotating between positive and negative for a while, he said.
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2020/12/31 15:17 (Getty Images) (Getty Images) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan on New Year s Eve reported two new imported coronavirus cases and its second imported case of the new mutant COVID-19 strain from the UK. The new strain, identified as B.1.1.7, has been found to be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original version that came out of Wuhan, China, last year. On New Year s Eve, Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) Spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) announced two new imported cases of Wuhan coronavirus and explained that a previously reported case has tested positive for the new mutant variant of the virus first detected in the U.K., the second such case in Taiwan.