Taoyuan hospital crisis over, CECC says
NO DANGER: The electronic flag on the NHI cards of the hospital’s staff and patients who were undergoing self-health management has been removed, the center said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The crisis caused by a COVID-19 cluster infection at Taoyuan General Hospital is over, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news conference in Taipei that the final polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on the hospital’s employees and contract workers had been completed.
A final testing project was launched 14 days after the last confirmed case linked to the hospital cluster had visited the hospital, he said, adding that 2,135 employees received PCR tests from Wednesday to Friday, all of which were negative.
Taipei, Feb. 7 (CNA) Taiwan on Sunday confirmed three new imported cases of COVID-19, but recorded no additional domestic infections, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
In went the needle, moments later withdrawn. I didn t even feel the AstraZeneka vaccine going into my arm. Just a brief event, so quiet, superficially so humdrum, just like the flu injection. Time to do cartwheels all the way home, yes? Emphatically no. I will be sticking to lockdown even after the three weeks until the serum takes effect.