Taoyuan General Hospital s outdoor testing area. CNA photo Jan. 26, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) All 90 residents and employees at a nursing home on the premises of Taoyuan General Hospital have been tested for COVID-19, and the results all came back negative, except for one pending, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Tuesday.
The nursing home, with 50 workers and 40 residents, is located in a restricted area on the 11th floor of the Taoyuan hospital, where a cluster of 15 COVID-19 cases this month originated, according to Chen.
The tests were carried at the nursing home amid concerns that it had not been included in a recent order issued by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) for all known contacts of infected persons in the Taoyuan hospital cluster to go into home quarantine, he said.
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Taiwan: ATJ monitoring shows layoffs and disruptions to reporting in 2020
The disruption of the global economy due to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the commercial challenges already facing the media industry around the world. In Taiwan, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)’s affiliate, the Association of Taiwan Journalists (ATJ), documented the loss of more than 200 journalists’ jobs as a result of layoffs. A masked medical staff walks out a Covid-19 coronavirus testing area outside the Taoyuan General Hospital, where a cluster of Covid-19 coronavirus infections were detected, in Taoyuan on January 19, 2021. Credit: Sam Yeh/AFP
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Extracurricular activities canceled at Taoyuan schools as COVID-19 rises
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Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan. CNA photo Jan. 25, 2021
Taoyuan, Jan. 25 (CNA) Extracurricular winter sessions at all schools in Taoyuan have been canceled with immediate effect, as the city battles a community cluster of COVID-19 cases that has now reached 15, Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) said Monday.
School facilities will not be available for winter camps or any other activities such as volunteer group or student club meetings, Cheng said, after the city on Sunday recorded two more cases in the COVID-19 cluster that started at Taoyuan General Hospital.
Following the end of the fall semester last week, elementary and junior high schools were scheduled to start supplementary winter classes Monday, but late Sunday the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said that some 5,000 people would have to go into home quarantine, as part of its control efforts.
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A woman wears a Chinese auspicious character “Fu (good fortune)”-patterned mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus while shopping at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, January 25, 2021.
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As COVID-19 and its new variants continue to surge in the West, Taiwan continues to excel in its response to the global pandemic. Despite recently reporting its own first case of a new variant, Taiwan remained virus-free from April 12 to December 22. Overall, Taiwan boasts objectively world-beating statistics: 843 total cases and only seven deaths, with 746 of those cases imported from abroad. Most notably, this was accomplished without imposing a single lockdown.