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Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) Forty-four members of the Moscow Classical Ballet, which had all its scheduled performances in Taiwan cancelled after eight of its members tested positive for COVID-19 this week, left Taiwan on three separate flights Friday.
A total of 42 members of the troupe boarded a Turkish Airlines flight at 10:05 p.m. bound for Istanbul, where they will take another flight back to Russia.
Two other members of the troupe left Taiwan for Japan and the United States earlier Friday.
They were all part of a 52-member group from the ballet company that arrived in Taiwan on Nov. 29 for a series of performances. The group had been scheduled to perform Dec. 16-20 at the National Theater Hall in Taipei and Dec. 25-27 at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts and the shows were expected to attract an audience of up to 15,000.
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Taipei, Dec. 17 (CNA) Four more members of a Russian ballet company scheduled to perform in Taiwan over the next two weeks tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said that day.
The 52-person company, which arrived in Taiwan on Nov. 29, was tested for COVID-19 at the request of the organizer udnFunLife on Monday - the day after completing their mandatory quarantine, and the results of four members came back positive Wednesday.
As a result, the CECC arranged another round of tests for the other 48 members of the group and the results came back on Thursday showing that another four individuals had contracted the coronavirus, according to the center.