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Taipei, Dec. 17 (CNA) Four more members of a Russian ballet company scheduled to perform in Taiwan over the next two weeks tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said that day.
The 52-person company, which arrived in Taiwan on Nov. 29, was tested for COVID-19 at the request of the organizer udnFunLife on Monday - the day after completing their mandatory quarantine, and the results of four members came back positive Wednesday.
As a result, the CECC arranged another round of tests for the other 48 members of the group and the results came back on Thursday showing that another four individuals had contracted the coronavirus, according to the center.
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Taipei, Dec. 17 (CNA) The Russian ballet company that had its first performance in Taiwan canceled a day earlier after four members tested positive for COVID-19 will have all remaining 11 performances called off because several more members have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, the event s organizer said Thursday.
The Moscow Classical Ballet was scheduled to perform Dec. 16-20 at the National Theater Hall in Taipei and Dec. 25-27 at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts and was expected to attract an audience of 15,000 people.
Tickets for the performances have almost sold out, but refund requests are being accepted, according to the organizer, udnFunLife.
Four more Moscow dancers test positive
CANCELED: While the troupe has been forced to cancel its tour, the minister of health and welfare said that people who test positive after a 14-day quarantine are not contagious
By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA
The Moscow Classical Ballet canceled all planned performances in Taiwan after eight members of the troupe tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the tally of infected members to eight.
The three female dancers and one male dancer have been placed under isolation, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), told a news conference in Taipei.
2020/12/17 15:08 (Facebook, kasvasballet photo) (Facebook, kasvasballet photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Thursday (Dec. 17) announced that four out of the eight new cases of Wuhan coronavirus are members of the Moscow Ballet dance troupe originally scheduled to perform this week. During a press conference on Thursday afternoon, health minister and CECC head Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced eight new imported coronavirus cases, raising the total number of cases in Taiwan to 757. The latest include four Russians, two Taiwanese, one American, and one Indonesian. Each had submitted negative results of tests taken within three days of their flight, and each was sent directly to an epidemic hotel upon arrival in Taiwan.