By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNAThe Central Epidemic Command Center （CECC） yesterday released new guidelines that allow people with mild cases of COVID-19 to quarantine at home.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 14 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, including three workers at a Kaohsiung oil refinery, as well as 53 imported cases.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the imported cases consisted of 16 inbound travelers who tested positive at the airport and 37 people who tested positive during or upon ending quarantine.
He said that 16 people among 467 passengers on 13 flights that arrived on Tuesday tested positive upon arrival a positivity rate of 3.43 percent.
Among the local infections, seven who tested negative when placed under
A declining number of Taiwanese fear an imminent war with China, according to a new poll suggesting that the rest of the world is far more worried than those at the center of this potential geopolitical flashpoint.
According to the poll, published on Thursday by CommonWealth Magazine, 35.4 percent of respondents said that they were worried about a military conflict breaking out over the Taiwan Strait within the next year, a decrease of nearly 15 percentage points from last year’s survey.
The poll also found that 59.7 percent of people do not think Beijing will ultimately use force to take Taiwan, while
The Ministry of National Defense is to refer obese members of the military for weight counseling after an internal report showed that thousands of soldiers are overweight, it said on Friday.
The Chinese-language United Daily News cited the ministry’s Medical Affairs Bureau as saying in a report that more than 10,000 service members had a body mass index (BMI) higher than 30.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, a BMI of 18.5 to 24 is ideal for Taiwanese adults, while a BMI of 30 to 34.9 indicates moderate obesity.
Deputy Minister of National Defense Wang Shin-lung (王信龍) told legislators that the
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai, front third left, yesterday joins more than 8,000 people in writing Lunar New Year couplets at a naval training center in Kaohsiung’s Fongshan District during the Kaohsiung Military Village Cultural Festival hosted by the Kaohsiung City Government, which pledged to preserve the city’s major military villages.