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WORKERS’ DORMITORIES: Most of the local cases were linked to a cluster infection in Hsinchu County, while a cluster in Keelung rose by 19 new cases to reach 27By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
HOME FOR CLICK: A police officer who tested positive was determined to have posed for a photo with Keelung Mayor Lin Yu-chang, who has been quarantined/ Staff writer, with CNA
The sources of domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections at a technology plant in New Taipei City’s Shulin District (樹林) and in Keelung are still being investigated, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. Taiwan yesterday reported 14 new domestic cases, with nine linked to a Vietnamese factory worker in Shulin, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) told the center’s daily news briefing. Chen, who heads the CECC, said that the worker, a woman in her 20s, developed a fever on Wednesday and a COVID-19 test which she underwent at a hospital the f...
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 121 new COVID-19 cases — 118 imported and three local. Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman, said the imported cases include 64 people who tested positive upon arrival at airports. Thirty-eight were from Vietnam, 10 from Indonesia, seven from the US, six from the Philippines and five from Hong Kong, CECC data showed. Yesterday’s imported case count was a slight decline from Saturday’s 120, the nation’s highest daily imported case count. Asked about a...
People conducting self-health management after quarantine or home isolation are required to take their two mandatory COVID-19 tests earlier to better detect the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said on Thursday. Starting from yesterday, people are required to take a COVID-19 rapid antigen self-test on the second and fourth day of their seven-day self-health management period, the center said. Previously, people were required to take the first rapid home test on the third day of their self-health management period, and the second test on either the sixth...