Taipei, July 27 (CNA) The Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan was Taiwan's most profitable hospital for the fifth consecutive year in a row in 2020, the National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) said Wednesday as it released the latest hospital financial performances.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 52,992 local COVID-19 infections and 151 deaths, including the first teenager to die of the disease.
The local case count was lower than the previous days, but that could partly be attributed to fewer people seeing a doctor during the Dragon Boat Festival long weekend, said Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director-General Chou Jih-haw (周志浩), head of the CECC’s disease surveillance division.
There were 243 new moderate-to-severe cases, he added.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that the seven-day average of new local cases showed that
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) A scooter rider was taken to hospital with a broken arm after being hit by falling rocks in New Taipei's Wugu District Wednesday, as areas across Taiwan braced for more heavy rainfall brought by a rain-bearing weather front that continues to linger over the island.
New Taipei City residents aged 65 or younger who contract COVID-19, but are asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms can now quarantine at home, the New Taipei City Government said yesterday, as it adopted a new Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) protocol on a trial basis.
The announcement came as the center yesterday reported 439 new domestic cases, the second-highest daily increase this year.
Given the “shockingly high” transmission rate of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, and that most of those infected only have mild or no symptoms, the city is asking people who meet certain conditions to quarantine at home, New