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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced enhanced disease prevention measures for public transportation, business venues, religious venues and events, as well as the management of migrant workers, citing an increased risk of COVID-19 transmission in Taiwan. The center yesterday reported 82 local cases, the highest daily number since June last year. The majority of them can be traced to two clusters: one linked to employees — mainly migrant workers — at an electronics company in Taoyuan, and the other linked to a maintenance worker at the Port of Kaohsiung, the CECC s...

By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center （CECC） yesterday announced enhanced disease prevention measures for public transportation, business venues, religious venues and events, as well as the management of migrant workers, citing an increased risk of COVID-19 transmission in Taiwan.

The government has no plan to cancel the Taiwan Lantern Festival this year, despite an increase in the number of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday. The festival is to be held in Kaohsiung from Feb. 15 to 28. Last year, the government canceled the nation’s flagship tourism event, which was to be held in Hsinchu City, due to a cluster infection at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan Hospital. “This year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival will proceed as scheduled,” Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told reporters...

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) yesterday said that it aims to have lawmakers deliberate a draft “Taiwan railway corporation act” in the next legislative session. Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) was speaking at the ministry’s new year news conference when asked about progress on reforming the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) and turning it into a state-run corporation. When Wang took office in April last year, his No. 1 pledge was to accomplish the transformation in three years. As a 134-year-old railway service, the TR...

For now, people are not banned from eating and drinking on trains, despite the rise in locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday. “On Sunday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that the nation would remain on a level 2 COVID-19 alert until at least Jan. 24. So we will follow the center’s disease prevention guidelines for passengers on public transport systems,” Wang said. However, bus and train depots...