Chen Shih-chung

401 new domestic cases and four imported cases were announced today, along with 266 cases added from the backlog. For the first time, Minister of Health Chen Shih-chung revealed the timeline for negotiations with Biontech and why talks broke down, something that began due to Biontech raising issues over what term Taiwan should be referred to as in a press release, despite having originally signed off on the press release...

Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung announced 302 domestic cases, two imported cases, and 11 deaths at today’s CECC press conference, in the largest one-day death toll from COVID-19 announced in Taiwan to date...

The CECC announced that the current level three alert will be extended until June 14th at its press conference this afternoon. Two million vaccines are set to arrive in Taiwan in June, while ten million vaccines are set to arrive in August. 281 domestic cases, two imported cases, and six new deaths were also announced. Though this is the third consecutive day that has seen six deaths due to COVID-19 and the number of new cases is subject to revision as new cases are added from the backlog of unprocessed tests, this is significantly down from yesterday's 376 cases...

With Taiwan now seeing near-lockdown conditions across the nation, COVID-19 has finally made its way into Taiwan. It is believed that Taiwan’s lack of any domestic vaccination, combined with more transmissible variants that developed over the past year, is why Taiwan has finally been hit by COVID-19...

334 domestic cases, along with five imported cases were announced today at the CECC’s daily press briefing, for a total of 339 cases. Earlier today, the central government overruled the Kinmen County Government announcing that a negative PCR test was required to enter Kinmen...

290 new cases of COVID-19 were announced at the CECC daily press conference today. The CECC also announced that, as it is working through the current backlog of unprocessed tests, 170 new cases were added to the past week...

Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung and the CECC reported 323 new cases of COVID-19 today. Chen also reported that with a backlog of COVID-19 cases that have not yet been processed, the CECC was able to make progress on getting through 10,400 tests in the backlog yesterday, resulting in revised statistics adding 400 cases to past days...

The Central Epidemic Command Center announced 315 new cases of COVID-19 today, consisting of 312 domestic cases and 3 imported cases. The majority of cases were in New Taipei, with 144 cases, of which 37 were in Banqiao. Taipei had 127 cases, with 60 in Wanhua. This is slightly up from 295 cases yesterday....

Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has enjoyed a halo of public approval over the past year, because of Taiwan’s successes fighting off COVID-19. It was only until recently that Taiwan has seen a sudden escalation of cases, following an explosion of close to 1,600 cases in the past week, since May 14th...