Taiwan residents urged to download app amid Covid resurgence
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Taiwan bans eating on public transportation. Image Source: IANS News
Taipei, May 14 : Taiwan residents were urged on Friday to download a social-distancing app after the island reported 29 locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases, a record increase in single-day infections since the beginning of the pandemic.
Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung, who heads the Central Epidemic Control Centre (CECC), told a news conference on Friday that these new locally transmitted cases include seven with unknown sources of infection, reports dpa news agency.
The remaining ones are linked to known infection clusters in northern Taiwan, he said.
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One of the tea parlors in Taipei s Wanhua District where a hostess was found to have contracted COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Taipei, May 13 (CNA) Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Thursday that the health authorities have found links between recent domestic COVID-19 clusters, as some of the confirmed cases in these clusters share the same mutated virus, while others have had contacts with carriers, which makes it less likely that the nation s COVID-19 alert will change.
The latest genome sequencing has shown that three domestic clusters in a Yilan game arcade, New Taipei s Luzhou District and an airport hotel in Taoyaun, shared the same mutations, which means they could be all part of the same cluster, Chen told reporters on the sidelines of a Legislative session.
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by The Associated Press
Last Updated May 12, 2021 at 4:14 am EDT
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) Taiwan’s president on Wednesday sought to reassure the public that the government is capable of withstanding a further outbreak of COVID -19 after six local cases were detected.
The exact origins of the cases have not yet been discovered.
“The challenge at this moment is still severe. Please be alert and follow the guidelines,” President Tsai Yin-wen said in televised remarks. She called on people not to panic
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Health Minister Chen Shih-chung / CNA photo May 12, 2021
Taipei, May 12 (CNA) Taiwan s government could raise its COVID-19 alert in the coming days as the country faces its biggest challenge in combating the disease since the pandemic began amid an increase in domestically transmitted cases of unknown sources. Taiwan currently has more than two chains of transmission for which we have yet to identify their sources. We are in critical condition now, and this is not a joke, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said at a Legislative session Wednesday.