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Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) Both China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Airways announced Tuesday that they will suspend all their passenger and cargo flights between Taoyuan and London in January in the wake of a surge in cases caused by a new, highly infectious variant of COVID-19 found in the United Kingdom.
Any resumption of flights will depend on how the pandemic unfolds, the two airlines said.
Taiwan s two largest airlines, CAL and EVA were reduced to operating one round-trip passenger flight between the two destinations per week after the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced last week that they were halving their weekly services.
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Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) Another EVA Airways pilot has been fired for violating the company s COVID-19 health protocols following the dismissal last week of a New Zealand pilot, who was recently diagnosed with COVID-19, for the same reason, the airline said Tuesday.
EVA Air, one of Taiwan s main international carriers, has since March fired four pilots and four flight attendants for breaking quarantine rules in Taiwan .
The company said in a statement Tuesday that it recently launched an investigation into whether any flight crew members have broken COVID-19 control rules and identified two pilots suspected of violating protocols, including one whose extramarital affairs were exposed by a tabloid weekly on Monday.
Two new imported cases of COVID-19
BAFFLING CASE: Case No. 790 tested negative for IgM and positive for IgG, indicating that a second positive was probably from his August infection, not a new one
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced two imported cases of COVID-19 in arrivals from the Philippines and the US.
Each provided a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result before boarding a flight to Taiwan and neither showed COVID-19 symptoms, the center said.
Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesperson, said that one of the cases is a Filipino in his 30s who arrived for work on Dec. 14.
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Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) Taiwan reported two new imported cases of COVID-19 infections, one each from the Philippines and the United States on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 795, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
Both presented negative coronavirus reports issued three days before they boarded their flights and neither has shown any symptoms of COVID-19 so far, the center said in a press release. The individual arriving from the United States, the center said, is an Indian national who has long resided in the U.S. and came to Taiwan with his family for work.