CAUSING DELAYS: EVA Airways has halted flights from Kaohsiung and Songshan airports to Shanghai’s Pudong airport until Feb. 3 due to a new disinfection processBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported one local and 23 imported COVID-19 cases the highest daily number of imported cases this year.
Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy chief of the CECC’s medical response division, said the local case is a man in his 30s who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.
He underwent a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test on Saturday, as he wanted to accompany someone to hospital, and it came back positive yesterday with a cycle threshold (Ct) value of 34.1, Lo said.
He tested negative in a second PCR test, and tested
The “One ID” scanning system started trials on Wednesday at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, with the system expected to allow people to enter and leave customs with no close contact with airport security or infrastructure.
Taoyuan International Airport Corp (TIAC) president Jerry Dan (但昭璧) said that the One ID project, promoted by the International Air Transport Association as early as 2019, seeks to facilitate boarding using biometric scanning.
TIAC has been testing the system for more than half a year, and it went through and passed an internal stress test last month, Dan said.
The system has been in closed trials since Dec.
Zara Rutherford yesterday departed from Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) after her round-the-world solo flight was delayed by two months due to complicated visa issues and bad weather.
The 19-year-old aviator after she landed on Tuesday said that she believes everyone can pursue their dreams and challenge their limits.
During an exclusive interview after a 4.5-hour flight from Seoul to Taipei, Rutherford said it had been quite a struggle physically and mentally over the past few weeks while she was stranded in Alaska and Russia from Sept. 29 to Friday.
“I knew I had a huge wall to climb over,” said the British-Belgian
British-Belgian aviator Zara Rutherford, bottom right (and inset), holds a cup of tapioca milk tea and waves yesterday as her Slovak-built Shark ultralight airplane is refueled at Taipei International Airport (Songshan airport) after arriving from Seoul. Rutherford, 19, is seeking to be the youngest woman to ever fly solo around the world.