Visiting patients banned in three cities
VIRUS CURBS: Visiting people staying at healthcare and long-term care facilities in Taipei, New Taipei City and Taoyuan is banned until May 17, the CECC announced
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday banned visits to patients or residents at healthcare and long-term care facilities in three cities until May 17. It also reported six imported cases of COVID-19 and two cases with unclear infection sources.
As the number of locally transmitted cases rises, some of whom have visited many places in Taipei, New Taipei City and Taoyuan, enhanced disease prevention measures have to be implemented in the three cities, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
KMT urges more vaccination incentives
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the government to increase incentives for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
KMT Culture and Communications Committee director-general Alicia Wang (王育敏) told a news conference in Taipei that China, Israel, Japan, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US have higher COVID-19 vaccination rates than Taiwan.
While the global average of the number of vaccine doses administered per 100 people was 14.2, it is only 0.3 per 100 people in Taiwan, Wang said, citing foreign media reports.
Taiwan Society of Preventive Medicine chairman Arthur Chen speaks at a news conference at the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) headquarters in Taipei yesterday.
Homies Soft Bar is not open for business on Tuesday. CNA photo May 4, 2021
Taipei, May 4 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Tuesday released details of places visited by two people recently reported to have COVID-19 before testing positive for the disease.
One of the people whose whereabouts were made public is a Taiwanese China Airlines (CAL) pilot in his 30s, who returned from the United States on April 18 and completed the three-day quarantine required of domestic flight crew members on April 21.
Despite testing negative for COVID-19 on April 21 and April 25, the man developed symptoms including a cough and fever on May 1, and tested positive on Tuesday, with a CT value of only 13, indicating a high amount of the virus in his body.
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