2021/04/26 17:59 Syringe being inserted into AstraZeneca vaccine vial. Syringe being inserted into AstraZeneca vaccine vial. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) With 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine shots administered worldwide as of Saturday (April 24), Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Monday (April 26) announced that it would start a pilot program in May that will allow people arriving in Taiwan from overseas to cut their mandatory quarantine down to seven days. During a press conference on Monday, Health Minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced that it will launch a pilot program in May allowing COVID-vaccinated people to shorten their mandatory quarantine from 14 days to seven days. However, openings will be limited and applicants must meet four criteria to be eligible:
CECC publishes venues visited by one local case
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By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday published the public venues that one of the three new local cases of COVID-19 had visited on Tuesday and Wednesday last week.
Case No. 1,112 is a Taiwanese man in his 70s and is the younger brother of an earlier confirmed case a man in his 70s and his wife, who were both diagnosed with COVID-19 during quarantine after returning from Canada earlier this month.
CECC reports three locally transmitted virus cases
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By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported three locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, and antibodies against the virus were detected in family members of China Airlines pilots who had also tested positive.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that the first local case No. 1,112 is a Taiwanese man in his 70s who had a short period of close contact with his elder brother (case No. 1,068), who tested positive, during quarantine, as did his wife (case No. 1,106).
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