Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) The global vaccine-sharing initiative COVAX will distribute around 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan during its first round of distribution, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Monday, although it did not say when they would be available.
2021/02/02 14:42 Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung chairing a CECC briefing Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung chairing a CECC briefing (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan confirmed three new COVID-19 cases imported from the United States, Japan, and the Philippines on Tuesday (Feb. 2). The total number of coronavirus cases in Taiwan now stands at 915, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC). Case No. 914 is a Taiwanese woman in her 60s who went to work in the U.S. in September and arrived back in Taiwan on Jan. 30. At the airport, she told the health authorities that after boarding the flight, she had diarrhea. While a first test proved negative, her second test on Tuesday was positive.
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Chen Shih-chung (left) and Chuang Jen-hsiang at an emergency press briefing Monday morning. Photo courtesy of the CECC
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Monday there is no truth to a media report that Taiwan has secured 100,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through diplomatic sources in the United States. There is no such thing, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at an emergency press briefing in Taipei.
Chen was responding to a front page story in the United Daily News on Monday, which said Taiwan had obtained 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer through diplomatic sources in the U.S.
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Monday there is no truth to a media report that Taiwan has obtained 100,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through "diplomatic sources" in the United States.
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Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) will expand the scope of COVID-19 testing later this week to cover all people working at Taoyuan General Hospital the epicenter of a cluster infection to make sure no coronavirus patient is missed.
Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said Monday that since the cluster infection broke out at the hospital on Jan. 12, 4,337 people have undergone or are still undergoing 14-day quarantines.
Among them, 1,820 have tested negative for COVID-19 as testing continues.
The 4,337 individuals include contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, hospital employees, patients who were discharged from the hospital last month, and their close contacts.