Food, drink ban on trains starts Monday taipeitimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from taipeitimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021/01/29 15:22 (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) In response to a fresh outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus cases in northern Taiwan, the government on Friday (Jan. 29) announced an eating and drinking ban on Taiwan High-Speed Rail (THSR) and Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) trains, set to take effect on Feb. 1. Amid a spike in COVID-19 infections stemming from a cluster at Taoyuan General Hospital, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) received notification from the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) Friday that a ban on eating and drinking on trains should go into effect Feb. 1. In addition to trains, MOTC said the ban will apply to long-distance buses, domestic flights, ferries, and post offices.
CECC reports four new imported COVID-19 cases taipeitimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from taipeitimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Losing its physical fair within days of opening because of a new COVID-19 outbreak, Taiwan’s biggest book fair extends its online run by four months. (Sponsored)
Taipei International Book Exhibition chair Robert Lin speaks in the show’s grand opening video. Image: TIBE
Robert Lin: ‘The Fortifying Power of Books’
With its online evocation offered in English as well as Chinese, the Taipei International Book Exhibition is off to an energetic start, seemingly no loss of spirit because of the COVID-19 virus outbreak that has scuttled its physical elements.
Originally planned for both digital and physical presentation, the show is annually the kickoff to world publishing’s new year of public-facing fair events and Frankfurter Buchmesse’s professional programming for the book trade. But on January 20, when Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center swiftly revised its crowd guidance as several cases were confirmed, the administration of the moved quickly to quell a series of
COVID-19: Delivery worker protection at hospitals urged
MIXED MESSAGES: A health official said that the rules give delivery workers and clients flexibility to appoint delivery locations that best suit hospitals
By Wu Su-wei and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Ministry of Labor should shield delivery workers from exposure to COVID-19 by banning food deliveries to hospitals, New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) told a news conference in Taipei yesterday, calling the practice “a pandemic loophole.”
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has failed to specify what “an appropriate, prearranged location” means in its guidelines dated April last year, Chiu said.