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The Taoyuan General Hospital. CNA file photo
Taipei, Jan. 19 (CNA) Major hospitals in Taoyuan and Taipei have tightened their restrictions on visits to inpatients following a rising COVID-19 outbreak in a cluster of domestic infections that began with a doctor who contracted the virus while treating a coronavirus patient at Taoyuan General Hospital.
Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital said Tuesday that those wishing to visit inpatients must first telephone a nursing station or use the hospital s online service application one day ahead of time to make an appointment.
No appointment will be accepted on the actual day of a visit, said the hospital, which is some 24 kilometers from the location of the latest cluster outbreak, which had affected nine people as of Tuesday.
‘CONTAINED’: The CECC is not considering locking down the hospital where the infections were detected, as their source has been found, Chen Shih-chung saidBy Lin Hui-chin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Humanitarian charter flight from Guam arrives in Taiwan
01/11/2021 06:53 PM
CNA photo Jan. 11, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) A humanitarian charter flight flew to Taiwan on Monday with 47 passengers who either needed medical care or were stranded on the islands of Guam and Saipan because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The flight, operated by China Airlines, one of Taiwan s largest carriers, landed at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 5:25 p.m., nearly four hours after it left Guam at 1:30 p.m. (Taipei time).
Among the passengers, five Guamanian patients and four of their family members were being flown to Taiwan under a special program for people who were ill and unable to leave Guam to get treatment because of the pandemic, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center.
Opinion: Learning from the Taiwan Model [Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila / Asia News Network]
Dec. 22 Taiwan’s trailblazing digital minister, Audrey Tang, was the main speaker at the “Kaya Pala! (It Can Be Done)” forum the other week, which focused on lessons from Taiwan’s evident success in containing both the coronavirus pandemic and the disinformation phenomenon, the so-called infodemic. (It was my happy task to serve as forum moderator.)Tang offered a close-up view of Taiwan’s “three pillars in social innovation,” which she summarized as the 3 Fs: Fast, Fair, Fun.
She started with the by now well-known fact that Taiwan responded immediately to the first public report of a SARS-like illness, posted by the Chinese whistleblower Li Wenliang (who later succumbed to the new disease) on Dec. 30, 2019. It was shared on Taiwan’s PTT platform the next day, where different people, experts and laymen alike, “triaged the message,” Tang said, to confirm that “it’s