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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced that rapid tests for COVID-19 would replace preventive isolation for “essential workers,” or people working in industries deemed critical to maintaining a functioning society. Faced with a spike in COVID-19 cases, the new policy is part of government measures to preserve the nation’s response capability, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news briefing. Current pandemic reg...

CRITICAL INDUSTRIES: Effective today, essential workers who are isolating at home can be recalled to work if they take rapid tests every two days, Chen Shih-chung saidBy Yang Yuan-ting and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA

Taipei, April 18 (CNA) Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) and Deputy Mayor Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊) have been isolating at home since Sunday afternoon after coming into contact with an individual who later tested positive for COVID-19, according to the city's Department of Health.

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday distributed 400,000 rapid test kits to areas of Taiwan with the greatest risk of infection, as it reported 1,210 new domestic and 93 imported cases. Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan and Hualien County yesterday each received 100,000 at-home test kits, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC. At this time, members of the public do not need to stock up on rapid test kits, as the price is to fall after ...

RISING RATE: Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung estimated Taiwan has an infection rate of 15 percent, with 3.45 million people who might become infectedBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

A two-year-old boy is hospitalized with severe COVID-19 symptoms, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, as it reported 1,199 new local cases. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, told the center’s daily news conference that nine new cases were classified as moderate and one — the boy — as severe. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of the CECC’s medical response divisi...

By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterA two-year-old boy is hospitalized with severe COVID-19 symptoms, the Central Epidemic Command Center （CECC） said yesterday, as it reported 1,199 new local cases.

Taiwan’s local COVID-19 case count might reach 10,000 per day and a cummulative total of more than 1 million Taiwanese might be infected by the end of the month, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said yesterday, as the nation posted a daily record of 1,209 new domestic cases. Chen said that rather than suppressing the spread of the ongoing outbreak involving the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the nation should stri...

DOMESTIC CASE RECORD: The government is to introduce a rationing system that would allow people to buy kits at a cheaper rate by registering with their health cardBy Lee Hsin-fang and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA

The government has begun to requisition COVID-19 rapid test kits, with an aim to distribute 40 million kits each month to meet public demand, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday. Su made the remarks at the weekly Cabinet meeting amid calls by opposition lawmakers to regulate the supply of rapid tests and keep prices down. In addition to requisitioning kits from domestic and overseas manufacturers, the armed forces also are to help with domestic production, Su said. The need for the...