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So successful had Taiwan been in handling the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that just a week ago, Ralph Jennings was writing at Forbes of how the health minister, Chen Shih-chung, was talking about the possibility of a limited reopening of its borders. This island of just under 24 million had carefully controlled outside access, closing to flights from China and then other parts of world early on in the contagion’s spread in the spring of 2020.
2021/01/22 16:22 Stock image shows man hand positive COVID-19 test result to Saint Paul Catholic Hospital deputy director in Douala, Came. Stock image shows man hand positive COVID-19 test result to Saint Paul Catholic Hospital deputy director in Douala, Cameroon. (Reuters photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Friday (Jan. 22) confirmed two new domestic and six imported cases of the Wuhan coronavirus. The cases, announced by CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), bring the country s total to 881. The latest imported cases include a man from Cameroon, the first person from that country to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in Taiwan, as well as a Taiwanese citizen and four migrant fisheries workers.
2021/01/20 18:17 Foreign Minister Joseph Wu departs for Palau on Jan. 20 (MOFA photo) Foreign Minister Joseph Wu departs for Palau on Jan. 20 (MOFA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Foreign Minister Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) departed for Taiwan’s Pacific ally Palau on Wednesday (Jan. 20) with a group of tourism agency personnel and the aim of exploring business possibilities under a travel bubble. The Taiwanese envoy will take part in the presidential inauguration on Thursday (Jan. 21). He will also meet with current President Tommy Remengesau, Jr. and the new president, Surangel Whipps, Jr., separately during the trip, according to a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) statement.
Over the past week, a total of 10 people linked to a government hospital in Taoyuan have tested positive for COVID-19, including two doctors, four nurses, a migrant caregiver and three family members of two nurses at the hospital.
2021/01/20 17:58 McDonald s on Sanmin Road in Taoyuan. (Google Maps image) McDonald s on Sanmin Road in Taoyuan. (Google Maps image) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Tuesday (Jan. 20) announced that one member of a coronavirus cluster infection associated with the Taoyuan General Hospital not only worked at a MOS Burger for three days while contagious but also visited a McDonalds for a late-night snack on Saturday night (Jan. 16). On Tuesday (Jan. 19), CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced a preliminary list of locations where three cases from a cluster of infections tied to Taoyuan General Hospital had traveled while potentially COVID positive. The three cases include Case No. 863, a nurse who works at the same hospital as Case No. 838, a physician who was the first person in the cluster, along with her husband (Case No. 864) and her daughter (Case No. 865).