CECC offers bonus for referrals that find infections
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
An additional bonus is to be offered to primary healthcare facilities if they refer a patient to a designated COVID-19 hospital for testing and the result comes back positive, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
As several locally transmitted COVID-19 cases associated with staff at an airline and hotel have been reported, and as most of them experienced common symptoms, including a fever or respiratory problems, a reward mechanism has been launched to encourage more proactive testing, the CECC said.
As of yesterday, 28 confirmed cases, including 14 local infections, linked to Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport and China Airlines had been reported since the middle of last month.
Visits to hospital patients banned in 3 cities amid COVID spread
05/04/2021 05:30 PM
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Taipei, May 4 (CNA) Over the next two weeks, visits to patients hospitalized in Taipei, New Taipei and Taoyuan will not be allowed, as part of an effort to stop the spread of domestic COVID-19 infections, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Tuesday.
The ban will remain in effect May 4-17 and will include long-term care facilities, said the CECC, which has been working to contain a cluster of domestic COVID-19 cases linked to a local airline and an airport hotel in Taoyuan.
In a press statement, the CECC said it was imposing the restriction, with some conditions, because it had found during its contact tracing that some of the people in the cluster had been traveling around the three cities.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN
Taiwan, largely spared from the global coronavirus pandemic since it began last year, is grappling with a small but still uncontained outbreak that appeared last month.
Since April 20, Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center has confirmed infections of 10 pilots working for the Taiwan-based international carrier China Airlines and eight relatives of pilots. At the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel, which is next to the island’s chief international airport, four employees, three of their family members and a hotel contractor have been diagnosed since April 29.
On Tuesday, the command center reported two new COVID-19 cases, both airline employees.
Taiwan, Largely Spared Since 2020, Now Fighting Small COVID Cluster
Voice of America
05 May 2021, 00:06 GMT+10
TAIPEI - Taiwan, largely spared from the global coronavirus pandemic since it began last year, is grappling with a small but still uncontained outbreak that appeared last month.
Since April 20, Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center has confirmed infections of 10 pilots working for the Taiwan-based international carrier China Airlines and eight relatives of pilots. At the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel, which is next to the island s chief international airport, four employees, three of their family members and a hotel contractor have been diagnosed since April 29.