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Taipei, April 11 (CNA) All Taiwan military personnel have been instructed to get their booster shot for COVID-19, which has so far infected 74 service members this year, Deputy Defense Minister Po Horng-huei (柏鴻輝) said Monday.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) plans to require people attending events that pose a high risk of contagion to prove that they have received a COVID-19 booster shot. The CECC unveiled the plan yesterday at a meeting at the Executive Yuan called by Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌). The policy would also cover people whose jobs or circumstances require them to have close contact with others, given they are eligible to receive a vaccine, it said. The nation’s first-dose vaccination rate is 83.62 percent and two-dose coverage rate is 78.73 percent, while the booster shot coverage r...
NEW STRATEGY: All government agencies should strive to boost vaccination among high-risk groups to achieve ‘zero severe COVID-19,’ the premier saidBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday urged people to download the Taiwan Social Distancing App (臺灣社交距離) to help the nation’s efforts to trace COVID-19 transmission chains. The highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 requires a more efficient approach to tracing contacts of confirmed cases, so the center would focus more on promoting the app, which notifies users when they had been near an infected person, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC. The app, first introduced in May last year, was developed by the ...
Taipei, April 9 (CNA) Taiwan reported its fourth death from COVID-19 this year and an additional 578 new cases of the disease Saturday, 442 domestically transmitted and 136 imported, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center.