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PAPERS, PLEASE: A digital certificate or a printout would return one of three results: green for ‘pass,’ red for ‘not passed’ or yellow for ‘to be determined,’ the CECC saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) Taipei and New Taipei on Monday revealed a number of places visited by a few individuals recently confirmed with COVID-19, including a disease control worker at Taoyuan International Airport, to alert people to possible infection points.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday confirmed 17 new domestic COVID-19 infections, all but three of which were linked to an outbreak in Taoyuan. The first case in the outbreak, a janitor at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, was reported on Jan. 3. Since then, other airport personnel and their contacts have also tested positive and the disease has spread to the wider community. Related clusters have emerged at factories, a bank and a steakhouse, and more than 90 cases have been reported so far, with about one-third of those confirmed to be the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2....
UNKNOWN SOURCES: The center was investigating how a man involved in a traffic accident and a nurse at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital had been infected/ Staff writer, with CNA
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 72 imported and six local cases of COVID-19, and elaborated on local cases linked to a restaurant cluster in Taoyuan. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that among the imported cases, 46 were confirmed positive at the airport upon arrival, while 26 tested positive during quarantine. Twenty-three arrived from the US and 10 from Canada, while there were one to three cases each from six other countries, he said, adding that 27 cases are still being investigated. While the number of in...