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Taipei, April 11 (CNA) All Taiwan military personnel have been instructed to get their booster shot for COVID-19, which has so far infected 74 service members this year, Deputy Defense Minister Po Horng-huei (柏鴻輝) said Monday.

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) plans to require people attending events that pose a high risk of contagion to prove that they have received a COVID-19 booster shot. The CECC unveiled the plan yesterday at a meeting at the Executive Yuan called by Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌). The policy would also cover people whose jobs or circumstances require them to have close contact with others, given they are eligible to receive a vaccine, it said. The nation’s first-dose vaccination ...

NEW STRATEGY: All government agencies should strive to boost vaccination among high-risk groups to achieve ‘zero severe COVID-19,’ the premier saidBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday urged people to download the Taiwan Social Distancing App (臺灣社交距離) to help the nation’s efforts to trace COVID-19 transmission chains. The highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 requires a more efficient approach to tracing contacts of confirmed cases, so the center would focus more on promoting the app, which notifies users when they had been near an infected person, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chun...

Taipei, April 9 (CNA) Taiwan reported its fourth death from COVID-19 this year and an additional 578 new cases of the disease Saturday, 442 domestically transmitted and 136 imported, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center.

The next two weeks will be a critical period during which the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) would closely observe Taiwan’s COVID-19 situation, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday. The CECC would watch the growth rate of local cases, changes in the reproduction number (R) and whether new infections emerge, said Chen, who heads the center. If the R value is consistently less than 1, it would mean that the pandemic is under control, he said. The R va...

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 133 local COVID-19 infections, including 52 cases with unknown origins, and 142 imported cases. The 133 cases cover 11 cities and counties, with New Taipei City reporting the most cases at 46, followed by Keelung with 31 and Taipei with 23, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center. Chen added that a new moderate COVID-19 case was confirmed on Sunday — a man in his 20s who has underlying ...

A wide-scale COVID-19 screening program would be conducted in Keelung, offering government-funded at-home rapid test kits to 360,000 local residents in light of a cluster that has expanded to 68 cases, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday. The virus seems to have been spreading in communities in Keelung for quite some time and it would be difficult to find undetected cases at testing stations, Chen said during a visit to Keelung. The details of the screening ...

VARIANT NO. 23: A case in New Taipei City’s Sanchong District showed in genome sequencing an infection with the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron, the CECC saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 83 local COVID-19 cases, including 52 linked to a construction site in Taoyuan and its workers’ dormitories in Hsinchu County. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said yesterday’s domestic caseload is Taiwan’s highest since June 27 last year, when 88 local cases were reported. Yesterday’s local cases include a family of four in Taitung County. The initial case in the family cluster...