CANCELED TOURS: The booster shot requirement for local tour groups will hopefully be dropped, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
China’s “zero COVID-19” policy would hamper the recovery of the civil aviation industry in the Asia-Pacific region, International Air Transport Association (IATA) director-general Willie Walsh told the Changi Aviation Summit yesterday.
“As long as the Chinese government continues to maintain their ‘zero COVID’ approach, it is hard to see the country’s borders reopening. This will hold back the region’s full recovery,” Walsh said in his keynote speech.
While Japan is also key to the industry’s recovery in the region and has taken steps to allow it, it lacks a clear plan to reopen to all visitors or tourists, he said.
Japan should
A subcontractor working on a project in Terminal 3 of Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport has gone bankrupt, Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) said yesterday, adding the slight disruption would not lead to further construction delays.
Construction of the new terminal began last year after the government had been planning it for more than 10 years. The contract to build the terminal was won by Samsung C&T Corp and Taipei-based RSEA Engineering Corp. The contract to install a mechatronic engineering system inside the terminal was jointly won by TECO Electric & Machinery Co, Shihlin Electric and Engineering Corp and Pai Chung Engineering
Seventy new cases of COVID-19 were yesterday reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC): 58 imported and 12 local, with nine of the local cases linked to an airport cluster and three to a new Taipei hospital cluster.
As of noon yesterday, 39 local cases had been linked to the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport cluster.
Of the nine new airport cluster cases, two were family members of two previously infected airport janitors, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
The family members tested positive in home isolation, he said.
Also added to the airport cluster were three
NEW CLUSTER: Taipei Deputy Mayor Vivian Huang said the two nurses reported as new domestic cases yesterday work at Taipei City Hospital’s Zhongxing branchBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter