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Two hospitals close fully or partly after staff test COVID-positive 05/20/2021 12:40 PM The Heping Branch of Taipei City Hospital (CNA file photo) Taipei, May 20 (CNA) One hospital in Taipei's Zhongzheng District and another in New Taipei's Xizhi District on Thursday announced full closure and partial closure, respectively, after they found employees infected with COVID-19. The Heping Branch of Taipei City Hospital, located near Wanhua, the epicenter of the capital city's domestic coronavirus outbreak, said it has conducted full-scale screening of all of its patients and employees since May 1...

No heat-up of COVID-19 in Greater Taipei: CECC 05/20/2021 10:54 PM To activate the text-to-speech service, please first agree to the privacy policy below. People line up at a COVID-19 testing site in Taipei's Wanhua District, an epicenter of the recent outbreak. CNA photo May 19, 2021 Taipei, May 20 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Thursday that based on the decline in test positivity rate for COVID-19 cases in Greater Taipei, there is no indication the outbreak is worsening. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who also heads the CECC, said Taipei saw a test posi...

TAIPEI (The China Post) — Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said on Friday that the Taipei City Hospital Heping Branch (臺北市立聯合醫院和平院區) will not be closed or sealed for now amid reports that two patients unexpectedly tested positive to COVID-19 a day earlier. Speaking to local media following a meeting with Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), the mayor said that the hospital’s emergency department will suspend operations first, before a throughout disinfection is completed over the next two to three d...

Why I flew home to Taiwan at the height of the pandemic I was homesick, but wanted to see how the country kept its death toll so low. While traveling from Los Angeles to Taiwan, I wore a coverall isolation gown, two masks, a face shield and gloves to protect against COVID-19. Photo by: Annie Wei May 4 “Hey, what do you think? Is it too much?” I asked. “Hah,” scoffed my roommate, seeing my oversized coverall isolation gown, two masks, a face shield and gloves. “Well, I mean, you don’t need to care what others think. You’re just protecting yourself.”

SARS-era series fundraising nets NT$5m HOSPITAL LOCKDOWN: Director Issac Wang said that the mini-series would feature history that can never be forgotten and would be a tribute to healthcare professionals By Chung Chi-kai / Staff reporter, with CNA The director of Public Television Service series Island Nation (國際橋牌社) raised NT$5 million (US$175,920) in three days after announcing a plan for a mini-series about the government’s decision in 2003 to seal Taipei City Hospital’s Heping Branch amid the SARS outbreak. Issac Wang (汪怡�...