2021/01/30 18:25 The mullet roe specialty store Li Ly Sun. The mullet roe specialty store Li Ly Sun. (Taiwan News photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Wary of COVID-19 spreading from clusters, Taipei City Government has announced the annual Dihua Street Lunar New Year bazaar is canceled, leaving only long-established stores on the street to cater to masked shoppers, while an e-commerce platform is partnering with popular stores to provide online options to customers. To tap into a growing demand for safe shopping and dining at home during the holiday, the leading e-commerce platform Shopee Taiwan is introducing an online Lunar New Year bazaar that incorporates 30 of the most-popular brick-and-mortar stores in the Dihua neighborhood for its online platform. They include Lee s Bakery (李亭香), Huang Chang Sheng Chinese Medicine (黃長生藥行), mullet roe specialty store Li Ly Sun (李日勝), and Lan Tung Herb
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Taipei, Jan. 30 (CNA) Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Saturday that Taiwan could face delays in the delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine from British-Swedish vaccine developer AstraZeneca, after the European Union (EU) introduced tighter rules on vaccine exports a day earlier.
Chen, who also heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), made the comment after new rules, set to be introduced from Jan. 30 to March 31, stipulate the export of COVID-19 vaccines produced in the bloc have to be approved by the EU authorities.
At a press conference in Taipei, Chen said a batch of vaccine doses from AstraZeneca was scheduled to be delivered soon, but that could now be subject to change.
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Taiwan Reports First COVID-19 Death In Eight Months From Hospital Cluster
Taiwan fatality was from among cluster identified at General healthcare facility located in the northern city of Taoyuan. the patient was an 80 year old woman.
In nearly 8 months, Taiwan on January 29 reported the first COVID-related death since May, as the island started containment efforts to stem locally transmitted cases. The 80-year-old woman, with comorbidity, is identified as a part of the domestic cluster from a hospital and is the eight fatalities since the pandemic hit the region. The island sprang to enact health precautionary measures to curb the further spread of the coronavirus among its 24 million citizens after a domestic cluster was identified at Taoyuan General healthcare facility located in the northern city of Taoyuan. This spiked the total number of COVID-19 cases on the island to 19 as of January 30, of which 6 cases were imported. The total caseload of COVID-19 now
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Taipei, Jan. 29 (CNA) Taiwan reported four new imported cases of COVID-19 on Friday, with three of the infected individuals arriving in Taiwan from the Philippines and one coming from South Africa, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
All four individuals had proof of a negative COVID-19 test result issued within three days of their flights to Taiwan, as required, the center said in a statement.
The three from the Philippines were all female migrant workers in their 30s who arrived in Taiwan on Jan. 14 and went directly into quarantine at a government-designated facility.
2021/01/29 14:33 Health worker checks temperature of elderly patient at emergency entrance of Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria. Health worker checks temperature of elderly patient at emergency entrance of Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria. (AP photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Friday (Jan. 29) confirmed four new imported cases of the Wuhan coronavirus. On Friday, health minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced four new imported COVID-19 cases, raising the total number in Taiwan to 899. The latest infections include three Filipino migrant workers and a Taiwanese citizen who recently returned from South Africa. Each had submitted the negative result of a test taken within three days of their flight, and each was sent directly to their residence upon arrival in Taiwan.