The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is this weekend reviewing the effectiveness of the level 3 COVID-19 alert and is to report its findings early this week, it said on Friday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that a declining trend had yet to emerge in the recent outbreak, despite the May 19 imposition of strict nationwide disease prevention measures, including closing schools and public venues, restricting gatherings to no more than five people indoors and 10 outdoors, and advising people to stay home.
The CECC would review the status of the outbreak in the