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By Wang chun-chi, Hua Meng-ching and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerPresident Tsai Ing-wen （蔡英文） and other officials yesterday visited people injured in the Taroko Express No. 408 train crash, as well as the families of those who died in the accident.
TAROKO EXPRESS CRASH: Tsai visits victims of crash, vows to give them support
By Wang chun-chi, Hua Meng-ching and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and other officials yesterday visited people injured in the Taroko Express No. 408 train crash, as well as the families of those who died in the accident.
The government is to provide support for the victims and their families, they said.
Tsai, joined by Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) and Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), also visited a funeral home in Hualien City, where services were being held for the deceased.
Home to Taiwan After a Year’s Absence
I arrived in Japan in February 2020, filled with some trepidation. The novel coronavirus was just starting to spread from China to other parts of the world. Many of the passengers on the plane from Taiwan were wearing masks, but on the monorail from Haneda to Hamamatsuchō only about half the people I saw were masked up. Tokyo’s measures against the spread of the virus did not seem very strict.
By the time a year had passed, the virus was ravaging the world, and Japan was no exception. Since the first infected person was identified in Japan on January 14, 2020, the number of cases has soared to more than 400,000. Taiwan reported its first case one week later on January 21, but the most recent total there has only just topped 900 cases quite a gap with Japan.
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