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A banner reminding worshipers to follow COVID-19 prevention rules is hung in front of Beigang Chaotian Temple. CNA photo May 1, 2021
Taipei, May 1 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Saturday it has been tracing the movements of three of the employees in a COVID-19 cluster infection at Novotel airport hotel and found that they had visited several restaurants and some tourist spots over the past week.
The tourist attractions included Alishan in Chiayi and Beigang Chaotian Temple in Yunlin, the CECC said, after it confirmed the 20th case in a series of infections among the Taoyuan hotel workers and pilots of China Airlines (CAL) and their relatives.
In 2002, a coronavirus originating in China began spreading. Though ultimately far less lethal than COVID-19, the SARS epidemic lasted in the national memories…
2021/04/30 15:34 Almaty in Kazakhstan (Wikicommons, Ninara photo) Almaty in Kazakhstan (Wikicommons, Ninara photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan on Friday (April 30) confirmed four new COVID-19 cases imported from Kazakhstan, Egypt, the Philippines and India, taking the nation s total to 1,128. The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) also announced three new domestic COVID cases, all of them staff members at the Novotel hotel near Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. Case No. 1123, a Taiwanese man in his 50s who traveled to Kazakhstan on business in February and returned to Taiwan on March 30. He went home after completing his compulsory quarantine on April 14, but due to new travel plans, he visited a hospital for tests on April 28.