PROGRESS: With the help of Taiwan’s Shinkong Wu Ho-su Memorial Hospital, Palau will hopefully have more than 50 percent of its population vaccinated by April 30By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday confirmed that it is mulling a “travel bubble” between Taiwan and Palau.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesperson, said the travel bubble plan has been discussed continuously, and a meeting to conclude the matter would take place in the next few days.
Shinkong Wu Ho-su Memorial Hospital has been supporting medical treatment and COVID-19 testing in Palau, so it understands the situation there well, and there has not been any COVID-19 outbreak in Palau, he said.
A number of plans are being discussed, but the details would
RISK REDEFINED: Thirty million doses would be needed to vaccinate people in 10 priority groups, and paid vaccinations might be allowed later, the center saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The government’s autumn-winter COVID-19 prevention program is to continue beyond Sunday, but eating and drinking on high-speed trains would be allowed from Monday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that while there were no new confirmed cases in Taiwan yesterday, the global COVID-19 situation remains serious, so the autumn-winter COVID-19 prevention program would be extended beyond its Sunday deadline.
“Border control measures, including requiring a negative polymerase chain reaction test result obtained within three days of boarding a plane to Taiwan, and undergoing quarantine in a