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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is monitoring three COVID-19 transmission chains with unclear infection sources, while other large clusters appear to be stabilizing, it said yesterday, as it reported 14 local cases. Two more workers at Askey Computer Corp (亞旭) tested positive during isolation, adding to a cluster infection at Taoyuan’s Farglory Free Trade Zone (遠雄自由貿易園區), said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center. One new case — the wife of a previous case, who is the neighbor of an infected harbor worker — is lin...

SHIFTING CONCERNS: An Yilan hotel cluster linked to Kaohsiung, a Taoyuan hotpot cluster and another in Taipei have unclear transmission chains, the CECC saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) Seven people who recently tested positive for COVID-19 visited several retailers and traveled on public transport in Taipei and Taoyuan before their infections were confirmed, the local city governments said Wednesday.

Taipei, Jan. 23 (CNA) Zinan Temple (紫南宮), one of the largest temples in Taiwan worshipping the god of land, will not distribute commemorative lucky coins on the Lunar New Year's Day, which falls on Feb. 1 this year, due to a worrisome surge in domestic COVID-19 infections.

Starting today, people can download a Digital COVID-19 Certificate, with the government now requiring people at night clubs, karaoke bars and other businesses in “eight major special establishment categories” to be fully vaccinated and present a vaccination certificate. The eight categories include dance venues, massage parlors, hostess bars and saunas. Customers and service personnel at the venues have a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, as they can neither avoid contact with people nor strictly observe distancing guidelines, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said. As such, bo...