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FREEING UP BEDS: The shift to home quarantine came as the nation reported its second-highest daily increase this year and signed a contract for more treatment drugsBy Lai Hsiao-tung and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has shortened the interval between getting a second COVID-19 vaccine shot and a booster dose to 12 weeks effective immediately, it said yesterday. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the decision to shorten the interval was made on Thursday evening after consultation with members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The interval was previously set at five months, but a preliminary consensus was reached to shorten it to 12 weeks, beginning yesterday, to address an outbreak of the Omicro...
DIVERSIFY: Fully vaccinated people can choose any brand as a booster, but AstraZeneca recipients should choose a different brand for better COVID-19 protection, the center said/ Staff writer, with CNA
New Taipei City on Friday launched a trial program to monitor and care for people at risk of unknowingly developing abnormally low blood oxygen levels, amid reports of people with COVID-19 dying from the condition. The program, implemented at the direction of New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜), has selected 60 people for a trial, during which participants provided with thermometers and oximeters would upload data on their condition to a platform for monitoring, the city government said. Should the program prove successful, it would be expanded to include city residents confirmed to h...