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WORKERS’ DORMITORIES: Most of the local cases were linked to a cluster infection in Hsinchu County, while a cluster in Keelung rose by 19 new cases to reach 27By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

HOME FOR CLICK: A police officer who tested positive was determined to have posed for a photo with Keelung Mayor Lin Yu-chang, who has been quarantined/ Staff writer, with CNA

The sources of domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections at a technology plant in New Taipei City’s Shulin District (樹林) and in Keelung are still being investigated, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. Taiwan yesterday reported 14 new domestic cases, with nine linked to a Vietnamese factory worker in Shulin, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) told the center’s daily news briefing. Chen, who heads the CECC, said that the worker, a woman in...

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 121 new COVID-19 cases — 118 imported and three local. Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman, said the imported cases include 64 people who tested positive upon arrival at airports. Thirty-eight were from Vietnam, 10 from Indonesia, seven from the US, six from the Philippines and five from Hong Kong, CECC data showed. Yesterday’s imported case count was a s...

People conducting self-health management after quarantine or home isolation are required to take their two mandatory COVID-19 tests earlier to better detect the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said on Thursday. Starting from yesterday, people are required to take a COVID-19 rapid antigen self-test on the second and fourth day of their seven-day self-health management period, the center said. Previously, people were required to take the first rapid home t...

The government expects soon to sign a deal for additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday. “We are discussing a new contract” to obtain more doses of the vaccine and it is “likely to be finalized soon,” Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), told a news briefing, when asked how many doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are left. Concern has been raised over supply of the Pfizer-B...

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported five local COVID-19 cases — four in Tainan and one in Taipei. Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division, said the Taipei case lives in the same household as his younger sister, who was on Saturday confirmed to have the virus. The Taipei cases were linked to a family cluster in Taipei and New Taipei City, Lo said, adding that their antibody test re...

On February 24, 2022, Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center ("CECC") announced that nonresident business travelers will be allowed to enter Taiwan, beginning on March 7, 2022.

Taiwan yesterday recorded three new domestic COVID-19 cases, all of whom were connected to an employee at a buffet restaurant in Kaohsiung, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said. Two of the new cases were relatives of a Tainan resident who had traveled with the parents of the employee from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22, Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman, said, adding that the three travelers tested positive for COVID-1...

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported two new domestic COVID-19 cases, including a woman in Kaohsiung whose source of infection is unknown. The woman, a cafeteria worker in her 30s, developed symptoms on Thursday and sought treatment at a clinic, said Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman. Contact tracing has shown no connection between the woman and existing cases, Chuang said, adding that she tra...