The main hall of Taipei Main Station. CNA photo Jan. 22, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) announced Friday that it will stop leasing train station main halls across the country as event venues, with immediate effect, as part of the nation s renewed efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The announcement was made the same day Taiwan recorded six imported and two new domestic cases of coronavirus, both linked to a recent cluster infection at Taoyuan General Hospital.
According to the TRA, all train stations in Taoyuan, Taipei Main Station and Banqiao Station were disinfected over the past week.
2021/01/22 10:49 Taoyuan General Hospital. Taoyuan General Hospital. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The COVID-19 variant L452R, which is increasingly prevalent across California, is the culprit behind the Taoyuan hospital cluster infection, said Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞), deputy chief of the Central Epidemic Command Center s (CECC) medical response division. A COVID patient who returned from the U.S. in late December spread the virus to his physician, Case No. 828 at Taoyuan General Hospital s intensive care unit. The doctor s live-in partner, a nurse working at the same hospital, later also tested positive. In the following days, another doctor, three nurses, and a Vietnamese caregiver all tested positive. Three family members of the infected have also been confirmed with the virus.
People waiting for a test out side the Taoyuan General Hospital. CNA photo Jan. 22, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) Patients listed as high risk who have been discharged or transferred to other hospitals from Taoyuan General Hospital since Jan. 6 must go into quarantine because of COVID-19 fears, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Friday.
Those to be isolated are all from high-risk zones of the government-run hospital, the source of a recent COVID-19 cluster infection.
They include 191 patients and more than 100 people who were listed as those caring for or looking after patients at the hospital (such as caregivers or relatives), according to CECC data.
Six new cases from abroad and two local
DUBIOUS HONOR? A man in his 90s, who tested positive yesterday and is part of the Taoyuan hospital cluster, is the oldest person in Taiwan to have contracted COVID-19
Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan yesterday recorded six new imported cases of COVID-19 and two new domestic cases, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said, adding that the local infections are linked to the cluster at Taoyuan General Hospital, which now totals 12 cases.
One of the domestic cases is a man in his 90s, who was treated earlier this month at Taoyuan General Hospital and tested negative for COVID-19 on Monday last week, four days before he was discharged, the center said in a statement.
Taipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) Taiwan on Friday recorded six imported and two new domestic cases of COVID-19, both linked to a cluster infection at Taoyuan General Hospital, where the number has now climbed to 12, according to health authorities.