TAIPEI (The China Post) â The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC, ä¸å¤®æµè¡ç«æ ææ®ä¸å¿) has initiated a “Cleaning 2.0” plan for CAL amid reports that the China Airlines and Novotel Hotel cluster infections have resulted in 35 people testing positive for the coronavirus, asking all personnel to undergo COVID-19 tests on Monday.
According to the new plan, all crew members in the front cabin will be called back to be tested for the virus and quarantined. As long as the crew members are in Taiwan, they will undergo mandatory quarantine.
If they are currently in another country, they will go to a centralized quarantine center.
Crew members in the rear cabin who have been sent on short-distance flights and those who have come into contact with crew members at risk will also be asked to quarantine for 14 days.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih- chung. CNA file photo
Taipei, May 10 (CNA) Taiwan on Monday reported four more COVID-19 cases linked to China Airlines (CAL) and the Novotel airport hotel in Taoyuan, bringing the number of cases linked to the two entities to 35, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
One of the four cases is a Taiwanese man in his 40s who works as a driver at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel.
After the first COVID-19 case at the hotel was reported on April 29, he was sent to quarantine at a government-run center. A COVID-19 test he took that day came back negative, the CECC said.
The Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei. CNA photo May 10, 2021
Taipei, May 10 (CNA) A China Airlines (CAL) pilot confirmed as having COVID-19 on Monday visited a bar and a restaurant in Taipei prior to his diagnosis, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The man went to the Seven Scholars Lounge, a bar in the Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei, on May 3, from around 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., the CECC said.
The following day, he ate at the Xian Lao Man restaurant in Taipei s Nangang District from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
According to the CECC, the pilot was likely infected on May 2 when he was driven to work with a colleague of his who tested positive on May 8.
A positive COVID-19 isolation experience
By Huang Jui-lin 黃瑞麟
On April 26, I arrived at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel to conduct an interview about the COVID-19 cluster infection involving China Airlines cargo pilots.
I was in the hotel’s main building for approximately two hours. When I became aware on April 29 that the entire hotel had been emptied out, I expected that I would receive a message from the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) instructing me to report for testing. By 6pm, when no such message had arrived, I called the “1922” COVID-19 hotline.
At 8am the following day, I received a call from the CECC and was asked about my whereabouts on and after April 26. I reported that I was feeling unwell and arrangements were made by the Taipei Department of Health to go to a hospital for testing.