All people working at Taipei’s hospitals, both healthcare personnel and non-medical staff, must be vaccinated against COVID-19, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday.
Ko said that vaccine hesitancy is reportedly high among medical workers, but that “starting today, this is not up to you.”
When seeking treatment at the city’s emergency rooms, people who had received a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test would also receive rapid screening for COVID-19, a measure that could help generate faster test results, he said.
Waiting two to three days for a PRC test result created an unnecessary psychological burden and an unneeded delay, he said,
COVID-19: TRA ridership on Sunday plummets amid case surge
PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The number of TRA and Taipei MRT passengers dropped 50% and 40% respectively during the peak morning travel hours yesterday
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Ridership on the Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) system on Sunday fell about 60 percent following a surge in locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in Taipei and New Taipei City, the agency said yesterday.
About 200,000 people on Sunday used the TRA system, down from an average of 640,000 people on a regular weekend, Taipei Railway Station Master Tu Wei-ting (涂維庭) said.
TRA estimated a 50 percent decline in ridership during the peak morning hours yesterday, the first work day under stricter disease prevention measures.
COVID-19: Name, number on MRT cards helps tracing: CECC
PITCHING IN: Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung said that only 30 percent of electronic ticket cards have the user’s name and contact information
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Commuters should ensure that their EasyCard, iPass and other electronic ticket cards have their name and telephone number on them for better contact tracing for COVID-19, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that local officials voiced concern about people spreading the virus on their commute between Taipei and New Taipei City, as most of them take the cities’ MRT railway or public bus systems.
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