The nation’s consumer price index (CPI) increased 3.38 percent last month, mainly due to increases in vegetable, fruit and daily necessity prices, marking the fastest growth over the past nine years, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said yesterday.
It was the second consecutive month that the nation’s CPI surpassed 3 percent, and the ninth consecutive month that the index exceeded the 2 percent benchmark, the agency’s data showed.
Food prices rose 6.9 percent annually, with the costs of vegetables advancing 27 percent. Egg prices surged 21 percent because of bad weather, higher feeding costs and a low comparison base
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The Taipei City Government has no plans for schools to postpone the spring semester, and it is planning to have elementary schools submit lists of their teachers for COVID-19 vaccination, Taipei Deputy Mayor Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) said yesterday.
Huang made the remarks at the reopening of the Guanghua Digital Plaza (光華數位新天地) market.
She said that the local COVID-19 situation remains stable and under control, and there is no need for schools to postpone the start of the semester this month.
However, the city government is planning to require teachers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect students who cannot receive such vaccines based