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One of the tea parlors in Taipei s Wanhua District where a hostess was found to have contracted COVID-19 on Wednesday.
Taipei, May 13 (CNA) Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Thursday that the health authorities have found links between recent domestic COVID-19 clusters, as some of the confirmed cases in these clusters share the same mutated virus, while others have had contacts with carriers, which makes it less likely that the nation s COVID-19 alert will change.
The latest genome sequencing has shown that three domestic clusters in a Yilan game arcade, New Taipei s Luzhou District and an airport hotel in Taoyaun, shared the same mutations, which means they could be all part of the same cluster, Chen told reporters on the sidelines of a Legislative session.
Six guidelines issued for enhanced protection
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced six main guidelines for enhanced measures to prevent transmission of COVID-19 in local communities.
Following a cluster of cases among China Airlines (華航) pilots, workers at its quarantine facility, the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel, and their family members since the middle of last month, the CECC on Tuesday reported six locally transmitted cases with unknown infection sources.
On the same day, it announced that Taiwan’s COVID-19 situation has entered the “local transmission” stage, and raised the domestic warning to level 2, ordering enhanced disease prevention measures to be implemented until June 8.
Ministry tightens public commute rules
TRAVEL: Eating and drinking onboard trains, highway buses, ships and planes are in general banned, while sales of standing-room tickets for trains have been suspended
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Public commuters are to observe stricter disease prevention guidelines from now until June 8 after the Central Epidemic Command Center raised the alert level for COVID-19 following an increase in local cases, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday.
With the CECC reporting six local COVID-19 cases with unknown sources of infection, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said that airplane, ship, highway bus and train passengers are in general banned from eating and drinking onboard.
2021-05-11 16:06:06 GMT2021-05-12 00:06:06(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TAIPEI, May 11 (Xinhua) Taiwan reported seven new local COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, with the source of infection not yet confirmed for six of them, the local disease monitoring agency said.
One case has been linked to an established cluster involving Taiwan-based China Airlines cargo pilots and employees at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport.
Five of the six cases with unknown sources have been linked to an arcade in Yilan County. In response to the cluster infection, the arcade has suspended operations and all employees have been placed under home isolation and tested for COVID-19.