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A new antibody survey is to bolster Taiwan’s COVID-19 surveillance by determining whether there are unknown community transmission chains, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. The “SARS-CoV-2 seroepidemiologic survey and long-term trend analysis,” which would be carried out by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Taiwan Blood Services Foundation, would test 36,000 serum samples from the nation’s blood donation center archives, the CECC said in a statement. ...

LONG-TERM TREND ANALYSIS: Blood donated from January to this month would be studied to inform the nation’s pandemic policy updates, the CECC saidBy Yang Yuan-ting and Wu Liang-yi / Staff reporters, with CNA

The National Women’s League (NWL) on Sunday said it would respond once it receives formal notice of a lawsuit filed by authorities alleging it has failed to vacate or pay for continued use of its repossessed premises in Taipei. The Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee in May last year ordered the league’s charitable arm, the NWL Foundation for Social Welfare, to return the Mei Ling Building (美齡樓) in Taipei after determining that the land was an improperly sold national asset. T...

INTERVIEW: Taipei hotel launches despite pandemic GENERATING BUZZ: Although international travel remains stifled, the hotel hopes to gain name recognition and cut its teeth with domestic tourists grounded by COVID-19 By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter Hotel Resonance Taipei (台北時代寓所), the first Tapestry Collection by Hilton property in the Asia-Pacific region, is focused on domestic tourism while waiting for international travel to open back...