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By Chiu Chih-jou, Lin Hui-chin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporters, with staff writerThe three-dose vaccine requirement and temperature monitoring rule for certain public activities would be lifted from Nov. 7, the Central Epidemic Command Center （CECC） announced yesterday.

Taipei, Oct. 18 (CNA) Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) has tested positive for COVID-19 after feeling unwell, Cabinet spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said Tuesday.

Taipei, Oct. 16 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Sunday are as follows:

Taipei, Sept. 8 (CNA) South Korean celebrity couple Kim Jae-woo and Cho Yu-ri have been selected as this year's spokespersons to promote Taiwan tourism in their country, the Tourism Bureau in Taipei said Thursday.

BORDER OPENING: The program is open to Taiwan’s 14 diplomatic allies, as well as the US, Canada, New Zealand and Europe, but a ban on group tours remainsBy Chiu Chih-jou, Lu Yi-hsuan and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporters, with staff writer

HOMEBOUND: Instead of ‘one person per residence,’ travelers can stay at their home for the four days of self-disease prevention under the ‘one person per room’ ruleBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced an easing of its “3+4” — three days of quarantine and four days of “self-disease prevention” — policy that would allow inbound travelers, from Sept. 1, to spend the last four days at their home under the “one person per room” principle. At present, travelers can stay at a quarantine hotel or at home under the principle of “one person per residence” for the four days of self-disease prevention. “In principle, the...

Reporting nine new local cases of the Omicron subvariant BA.5 of SARS-CoV-2, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said that the BA.5 strain is gradually spreading in northern Taiwan and was expected to cause a wave of infections in one or two weeks. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director-General Chou Jih-haw (周志浩), head of the CECC’s disease surveillance division, said 15,206 new local COVID-19 infections, 206 imported cases and 26 deaths were confirmed. The local cas...

Taipei, Aug. 5 (CNA) Taiwan on Friday reported 21,869 new cases of COVID-19, all but 292 of which were domestic infections, and 54 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command center (CECC).

Taipei, Aug. 4 (CNA) Taiwan on Thursday reported 22,959 new cases of COVID-19, all but 252 of which were domestic infections, and 56 deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command center (CECC).