Taipei, June 11 (CNA) Lee Chin-yun (李慶雲), a pediatrician and pioneer in vaccine development in Taiwan, died Friday at the age of 94, the Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan said the same day.
Taipei, June 10 (CNA) A doctor practicing medicine in New Taipei City's Sanchong District has died from COVID-19, becoming possibly the first physician to die from the disease in Taiwan.
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday opened an investigation into the Taipei-based Good Liver Clinic after allegations that it gave free COVID-19 vaccine shots to people not in groups eligible to receive them.
Prior to Wednesday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) had only authorized three groups of people in Taipei to receive shots: The first priority group, composed of registered healthcare workers and other non-healthcare workers at healthcare facilities; the second priority group, composed of central and local government disease prevention personnel; and the third priority group, composed of frontline workers with high infection risk exposure, such as flight or
WEDNESDAY, June 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) Osteoarthritis (OA) may be associated with the risk for developing Parkinson disease (PD), especially among patients with knee or hip OA, according to a study published online June 8 in Arthritis Care & Research. Shih-Hao Feng, M.D., from the National Taiwan University Hospital Chu-Tung branch, and colleagues conducted
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 476 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, 35 backlogged cases and 37 deaths.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that most of the total of 511 cases live in New Taipei City, with 229 cases, followed by Taipei with 144, Miaoli County with 66, Taoyuan with 16, Keelung with 13 and Changhua County with 11.
Taichung reported nine new cases; Hsinchu County seven; Pingtung County four; Kaohsiung as well as Nantou and Chiayi counties reported three each; and Hsinchu City, Yunlin County and Tainan reported one new case each.
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