High alert as flight from London lands
NEW VIRUS STRAIN: Chunghwa Post Co said that from today it would no longer deliver or accept airmail or packages to and from the UK due to a lack of flights
By Wu Liang-yi / Staff reporter, with CNA
Maximum disease prevention measures were taken by ground staff as passengers arriving in Taiwan on a China Airlines (CAL, 中華航空) flight from London were last night sent to three quarantine centers in the greater Taipei area, Hospital and Social Welfare Organizations Administration Commission Director Wang Pi-sheng (王必勝) said.
Upon landing at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, the 114 passengers on Flight CI-82 90 Taiwanese, one Chinese and 23 foreign nationals were led to an airport lounge and greeted by ground staff wearing masks and protective suits, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said.
2020/12/25 15:25 CECC says doctors should be on lookout for community outbreaks. CECC says doctors should be on lookout for community outbreaks. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Following the infection of three people by a New Zealander pilot, doctors and nurses should be aware that the risk of a community outbreak of the coronavirus has increased, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said in an urgent message Friday (Dec. 25). EVA Air decided to sack the pilot after news broke that he had violated epidemic prevention regulations by visiting several department stores and supermarkets. He had also infected two fellow pilots, and a female friend of his was confirmed as Taiwan’s first domestic transmission in eight months.
Taipei, Dec. 24 (CNA) The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) on Thursday fined EVA Airways NT$1 million (US$34,746) for failing to ensure its employees followed necessary COVID-19 prevention measures.
Taipei, Dec. 24 (CNA) A total of 176 individuals who had contact with a newly-confirmed domestic COVID-19 case have received both nucleic acid and antibody tests and the results came back negative for the disease, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Thursday at a press conference.
2020/12/24 12:00 Facebook profile of New Zealander pilot. (Facebook screenshot) Facebook profile of New Zealander pilot. (Facebook screenshot) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) New Zealanders are criticizing a pilot from their country online for causing the first local transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus in Taiwan in eight months. On Tuesday afternoon (Dec. 22), health minister and Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced Taiwan s first confirmed local case of COVID-19 since April 12. Chen said that the local infection, Case No. 771, is a woman in her 30s who came in close contact with Case No. 765, the EVA Air cargo pilot from New Zealand who had been associated with a cluster infection of pilots.