The CECC announced 275 new cases of COVID-19 today. 267 cases were domestic transmission, with 8 imported cases. In line with the continued spread of COVID-19 outside of Taipei and New Taipei, the CECC announced that all areas nationwide would shift to level three status from today onward...
240 new domestic cases and five imported cases of COVID-19 were announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily press conference today. Schools will be closed nationwide starting tomorrow. Government officials also confirmed news of two deaths due to COVID-19 yesterday, bringing Taiwan's death toll to fourteen in the course of the pandemic ...
At the daily press conference held by the Central Epidemic Command Center, 335 new cases of COVID-19 were announced in Taiwan today. 333 are cases of domestic transmission, while two cases are imported...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s COVID-19 response, announced 207 new cases of COVID-19 today. 206 cases were from domestic transmission, while one case was imported...
Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung stated during a radio interview with Hit FM this afternoon that plans to purchase five million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had possibly been blocked because of Chinese government interference...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, has been increasingly questioned on the timeline for vaccine availability in past weeks...
The situation regarding the Taoyuan General Hospital cluster, Taiwan’s first COVID-19 cluster since last April and Taiwan’s largest COVID-19 cluster to date, continues to develop. Friday night saw the first COVID-19 death in eight months, after a woman in her eighties part of the cluster died, and was found to have been infected with COVID-19 after her death...
With the cluster of cases linked to the Taoyuan General Hospital having now expanded to a total of fifteen cases, the Central Epidemic Command Center that coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 has announced that discharged patients that were released from the hospital between January 6 and 19 and their close contacts must undergo a fourteen-day home quarantine...
Over the past week, KMT politicians have begun calling for a lockdown of Taoyuan after a cluster of thirteen cases of COVID-19 connected to the Taoyuan General Hospital broke out. This is the first domestic cluster of COVID-19 since last April. However, the situation in Taoyuan is far from one which would warrant the need for a lockdown, and the KMT's call for a lockdown is simply a means to attack the DPP, disregarding what the human consequences of a lockdown for residents of Taoyuan would be...
