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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – The island of Taiwan, which has had enviable success in containing COVID-19, imposed new restrictions in its capital city on Saturday as it battled its worst outbreak since the pandemic began.
Authorities raised the alert level for Taipei, the capital, and the surrounding area of New Taipei city. The level 3 alert, which remains in effect for two weeks, requires people to wear a mask outdoors and limits indoor gatherings to five people and outdoor gatherings to 10 people.
Health authorities said that 180 new locally spread cases had been confirmed, the majority in Taipei and New Taipei. That’s more than the total of 164 cases previously confirmed for the entire pandemic period. The daily number of new cases rose steadily from single digits early this week to 29 before the triple-digit jump announced Saturday.
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People wait in lines to get a COVID-19 test in a testing site set up in Taipei. CNA photo May 15, 2021
Taipei, May 15 (CNA) An additional 180 domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases reported Saturday were scattered across seven cities and counties, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The number of confirmed cases represented a record high of infections in a single day since the pandemic began.
The CECC said Taipei and New Taipei in northern Taiwan remained hot spots for the disease, reporting 89 cases and 75 cases, respectively, Changhua County in central Taiwan registered six, Yilan County in the east and Taoyuan in the north registered four each, while Keelung in the north and Taichung in central Taiwan recorded one each.
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A man wears a sign reminding shoppers in a market in Taipei that wearing a face mask is mandatory. CNA photo May 15, 2021
Taipei, May 15 (CNA) Residents in Taipei and New Taipei will face fines of up to NT$300,000 (US$10,714) if they break tightened disease control measures after the government raised its COVID-19 alert for the two cities Saturday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said that day.
Indoor gatherings of more than five people and outdoor gatherings of more than 10 people are now prohibited, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at a press briefing Saturday.
TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Friday (May 14) that there is no need to raise the island s Covid-19 alert level for the time being and that compared with last year it has more experience and resources to fight the pandemic.
While Taiwan has reported just 1,233 cases, mostly imported from abroad, out of a population of some 24 million, a recent small rise in domestic infections has spooked Taiwan s people and the stock market.
Writing on his Facebook page, Su said the next two weeks would be crucial to controlling the chain of transmission. Compared with this time last year, we already have more experience and resources to fight the pandemic, he said.