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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The government should give emergency use authorization (EUA) for vaccines so that manufacturers would be willing to sell doses directly to civic groups, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) said yesterday.
In many countries, governments have given emergency use authorization for new vaccines so that drug makers would be more willing to sell their vaccines after testing, Chiang wrote on Facebook.
If President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration would also provide such authorization, foreign companies would be able to sell vaccines to civic groups without providing letters of authorization, he said.
An attempt by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co founder Terry Gou
Taipei, June 5 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Saturday pledged to assist local authorities in Hsinchu and Miaoli, home to many of Taiwan's largest technology companies, after two companies in Miaoli were hit by COVID-19 cluster infections.
Effective immediately, migrant workers are temporarily banned from changing employers, and employers are temporarily banned from moving migrant workers between factories as long as the level 3 COVID-19 alert remains in place, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
King Yuan Electronics (京元電子) on Thursday began conducting rapid COVID-19 tests on all of its about 7,300 employees after a cluster infection was confirmed among migrant workers at its manufacturing campus in Miaoli County.
King Yuan is a chip testing and packaging service provider based in Hsinchu City. Its migrant workers live in dormitories.
As more migrant workers tested positive, the
Taiwan has been uplifted by Japan’s donation of 1.24 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, but it is disheartening to see central and local governments divided in their pandemic responses.
Soon after Japan’s plan to deliver the vaccines was reported by foreign media, certain local media began touting the central government’s low-profile arrangements in making the delivery possible, citing anonymous sources from high-ranking national security agencies. Japan’s donation is heartwarming, and no one would question the central government’s achievement in negotiating with Japan for this aid. Nonetheless, the nation has its own battles to fight. Additional medical resources are of