Taiwan has seen record-breaking daily case counts this week. Two of the shops, which two infected women worked at, were in a densely populated area of the capital near the Longshan Temple MRT Station and Xinfu Market, where large numbers of people circulate each day, the newspaper reported. Another cluster is thought to be linked to an amusement arcade in northeastern Yilan City,
CNN reported. However, many of the domestic cases centred in northern Taiwan are believed to be connected to an earlier outbreak among pilots and a hotel at Taipei’s main international airport,
Reuters reported. The exact chain of transmission has not yet been confirmed.
Taipei, May 19 (CNA) Taiwan will begin to set up more COVID-19 testing sites at places frequented by people confirmed to have the disease, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said at a press conference Wednesday.
Private companies to provide test kits, medical equipment
05/19/2021 06:54 PM
Hyper Light disinfection robots. Photo from the website of Mediland
Taipei, May 19 (CNA) Taiwanese companies have joined forces to provide COVID-19 test kits and medical equipment, some of which are free of charge, to medical facilities that have been burdened with rising COVID-19 cases across Taiwan in recent days.
At least 10 companies have pledged to provide rapid and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test kits and virus detection equipment to local governments and hospitals as of Wednesday.
The test kits and equipment will be provided through donations, free loans, or purchases at discounted pricing with the aim of speeding up COVID-19 testing efforts in Taiwan, the Precision Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics Industry Association of Taiwan said on Tuesday.
Taipei, May 19 (CNA) Local governments in Taiwan on Wednesday released detailed information about the places visited by people recently confirmed to have contracted COVID-19.