CECC focuses on foreign pilots as source of airport hotel COVID-19 cases
04/30/2021 07:57 PM
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Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (front, second left) arrives at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel on Thursday. Photo courtesy of a reader.
Taipei, April 30 (CNA) The search for the source of COVID-19 infections found at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel is now focused on pilots of foreign carriers who stayed there, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Friday.
Four employees at the hotel, which is partly used by Taiwan-based China Airlines and other carriers for their crew members, have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 as of Friday, but how they became infected remains unclear.
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By Lin Hui-chin / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported seven new COVID-19 cases, including three domestic ones linked to Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport.
Starting from next week, the center is to inspect quarantine hotels nationwide, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news briefing in Taipei yesterday.
The center on Thursday said that a senior housekeeping employee at the hotel (identified as case No. 1,120) had tested positive for the virus, while 412 people at the hotel were moved to government quarantine facilities and received virus tests.
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Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung shows locations visited recently by two of the new patients, who are employees at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport. Photo courtesy of the CECC
Taipei, April 30 (CNA) Three employees at Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport have been confirmed among seven COVID-19 cases reported in Taiwan on Friday, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The three new patients, all listed as domestic cases, were confirmed after one of their colleagues at the airport hotel tested positive the day before. (Amid new COVID-19 cases, Taoyuan tightens prevention measures)
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