FDA Clears Pfizer Shot for Teens; U.S. Cases Slow: Virus Update
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15. The number of new cases in U.S. rose last week at the slowest pace since the pandemic began, as more Americans are vaccinated and the nation recovers from a winter spike fueled by holiday travel.
India’s capital of New Delhi extended its lockdown for another week as it battled a wave of infections and warned about a potentially deadly fungal infection in Covid-19 patients. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization sees the highly contagious variant spreading in India as a global concern.
2021/05/07 16:54 (Flickr/talkairlines) (Flickr/talkairlines) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) China Airlines, the state-owned carrier, has been fined NT$1 million (US$35,850) by the Civil Aeronautics Administration for failing to comply with COVID-19 epidemic prevention measures set by the government. During a press conference on Friday (May 7), Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said China Airlines was found to have put some of its crew members in a non-quarantine hotel after they returned to Taiwan. While only one of the two Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport Hotels was designated as a quarantine facility, the other accepted the airline s crew members as well, he explained. China Airlines will therefore receive a NT$1 million fine for violating the Civil Aviation Act, Chen said, citing Article 2 of the act. Meanwhile, he added the Novotel hotel was also fined NT$150,000 by the Tourism Bureau and NT$15,0
Soldiers are deployed to disinfect China Airlines headquarters in Taoyuan. CNA photo May 2, 2021
Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Taiwanese carrier China Airlines (CAL) will be fined NT$1 million (US$35,800) by the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) for failing to manage a dormitory for flight crew members in home quarantine, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Friday.
The CAA will impose the fine for violating the Civil Aviation Act and Aircraft Flight Operation Regulations for its failure to carry out quarantine and health management measures related to its flight crews, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at a press briefing.
Three groups of infections identified among CAL, Novotel COVID cases
05/07/2021 06:54 PM
CECC official Lo Yi-chun. Photo courtesy of the CECC
Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Three different groups of COVID-19 infections have been identified among employees of Taiwan s China Airlines (CAL) and the Novotel airport hotel in Taoyuan and their relatives, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Friday.
The CECC completed genome sequencing of the virus found in six more cases among the 29 people infected in those clusters, CECC official Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞) said at a COVID-19 press briefing.
The six new results brought to 22 the number of people among the 29 COVID-19 cases for whom genome sequencing has been completed, and the CECC has found three different types of a variant of the virus that first emerged in the United Kingdom among those 22.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC, 中央流行疫情指揮中心) announced on Thursday reported 1 local and 12 more imported COVID-19 infections, bringing the tally to 1,173.