2020/12/29 16:23 (Internet images) (Internet images) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) EVA Air has confirmed that it has fired a pilot after reports surfaced that he had allegedly engaged in illicit affairs with multiple women and conned them out of money while undergoing quarantine. Amid the furor over the actions of an EVA Air cargo pilot from New Zealand which led to a cluster infection of pilots as well as the infection of a Quanta Computers employee, a woman came forward on Tuesday (Dec. 29) to allege that a married first officer who flies the same fleet of EVA Air 777 jets as the New Zealander had affairs with multiple women, including while under quarantine. Another woman alleged that he even invited her over to his home in Taoyuan while he was undergoing quarantine.
2020/12/28 10:34 Passengers arriving from UK. Passengers arriving from UK. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Five passengers on the first flight to arrive in Taiwan from the U.K. since the emergence of a new mutant strain of the Wuhan coronavirus are the focus of concern, as four have symptoms of the virus and one registered a high fever. On Saturday (Dec. 26), China Airlines Flight CI 082 took off from London at 9:15 local time and arrived at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 5:36 p.m. on Sunday (Dec. 27). The flight was carrying 127 people, including 13 crew members, 90 Taiwanese passengers, one Chinese, 21 British, and two Americans.
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Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) Taiwan recorded eight new imported COVID-19 cases on Monday, including three that arrived from the United Kingdom on the same flight Sunday, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The flight was the first from the U.K. to arrive in Taiwan after stricter rules were imposed on travelers from the country. All 114 passengers were tested for COVID-19 shortly after they arrived, and of the group, three have tested positive for the disease, the CECC said.
One had a fever, while the other two have shown no symptoms so far, the CECC said.
Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung. Photo courtesy of the CECC, Dec. 28, 2020
Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) Three passengers who arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, on the first direct flight from the United Kingdom since stricter rules were imposed for travelers from the country, were among eight new imported COVID-19 cases reported in Taiwan on Monday, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The new cases brought the total number in Taiwan to 793, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at a press conference.
Of the 114 passengers on the flight, who all received COVID-19 tests shortly after they arrived, three have tested positive, Chen said.
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Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) Taiwan plans to extend the quarantine time for arriving flight crews to seven days and stipulate that they must be housed in designated facilities during that time, Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said Monday.
The decision was made Saturday, when the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) and the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) met with airline companies to discuss the issue, following a recent case of a pilot who breached COVID-19 protocols and caused Taiwan s first confirmed domestic transmission since April.
Currently, commercial airline pilots arriving in Taiwan are required to self-quarantine for three days, and flight attendants for five days, at a hotel or at home.