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CECC says Taoyuan lockdown unnecessary
By Wu Liang-yi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A city-wide lockdown is a measure of last resort, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, adding that the cluster of COVID-19 infections at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan General Hospital has not reached that level.
With 10 cases reported from among the hospital’s workers and their relatives, some people, including Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) members, are asking whether the center should consider locking down Taoyuan to prevent further spread of the virus.
The CECC yesterday reported two more cases imported from the Philippines and one from Denmark, but no more from the hospital.
2021/01/22 03:00
By Wu Liang-yi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A city-wide lockdown is a measure of last resort, the Central Epidemic Command Center ï¼CECCï¼ said yesterday, adding that the cluster of COVID-19 infections at the Ministry of Health and Welfareâs Taoyuan General Hospital has not reached that level.
With 10 cases reported from among the hospitalâs workers and their relatives, some people, including Chinese Nationalist Party ï¼KMTï¼ members, are asking whether the center should consider locking down Taoyuan to prevent further spread of the virus.
The CECC yesterday reported two more cases imported from the Philippines and one from Denmark, but no more from the hospital.
A global team of researchers yesterday arrived in the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins, amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries.
The group sent to Wuhan by the WHO was approved by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) government after months of diplomatic wrangling that prompted an unusual public complaint by the head of WHO.
Scientists suspect the virus that has killed more than 1.9 million people since late 2019 jumped to humans from bats or other animals, most likely in China’s southwest.
The Chinese