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CECC says Taoyuan lockdown unnecessary
By Wu Liang-yi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A city-wide lockdown is a measure of last resort, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that the cluster of COVID-19 infections at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan General Hospital has not reached that level.
With 10 cases reported from among the hospital’s workers and their relatives, some people, including Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) members, are asking whether the center should consider locking down Taoyuan to prevent further spread of the virus.
The CECC yesterday reported two more cases imported from the Philippines and one from Denmark, but no more from the hospital.
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By Wu Liang-yi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A city-wide lockdown is a measure of last resort, the Central Epidemic Command Center ï¼CECCï¼ said yesterday, adding that the cluster of COVID-19 infections at the Ministry of Health and Welfareâs Taoyuan General Hospital has not reached that level.
With 10 cases reported from among the hospitalâs workers and their relatives, some people, including Chinese Nationalist Party ï¼KMTï¼ members, are asking whether the center should consider locking down Taoyuan to prevent further spread of the virus.
The CECC yesterday reported two more cases imported from the Philippines and one from Denmark, but no more from the hospital.
Scientists across the world were locked in fierce debate yesterday over the wisdom, or otherwise, of the UK switching to a single-dose strategy for the Covid vaccine.
White coats were flapping on social media after Britain’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) published its rationale for the move on Thursday night.
“Given the high level of protection afforded by the first dose, models suggest that initially vaccinating a greater number of people with a single dose will prevent more deaths and hospitalisations than vaccinating a smaller number of people with two doses,” said the JCVI.
That the move, first floated by former British prime minister Tony Blair last week, is an innovation there can be little doubt, although some prefer the word ‘gamble’.