Tokyo, June 3 (CNA) Japan's government is ready to announce the provision of 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan as soon as Friday, a report from the country's public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday.
Taipei, June 3 (CNA) Dozens of migrant workers employed at a printing company in New Taipei and an electronic component manufacturer in Miaoli County have contracted COVID-19, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Thursday.
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) has secured NT$22.397 billion (US$808.44 million) from the Executive Yuan’s COVID-19 special relief funding for the transportation and tourism industries, which have been severely affected by strict disease prevention measures, it said yesterday.
The funding was about NT$400 million less than the ministry had originally requested, it said.
Unlike last year, when restrictions implemented by the Central Epidemic Command Center mainly affected outbound tourism and transportation operators, new measures have directly affected the domestic market across the board, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told an online news conference.
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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is considering advising hemodialysis centers, especially in Taipei and New Taipei City, to perform regular COVID-19 testing on their patients, it said yesterday, amid concerns about cluster infections at similar facilities with senior patients.
The frequency of the testing would be about once every one to two weeks, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), who is deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division, said at the center’s daily briefing in Taipei.
The CECC also wants special “buffer zones” or waiting areas to be designed to prevent people who are accompanying patients