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The government has no plan to cancel the Taiwan Lantern Festival this year, despite an increase in the number of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the Tourism Bureau said yesterday. The festival is to be held in Kaohsiung from Feb. 15 to 28. Last year, the government canceled the nation’s flagship tourism event, which was to be held in Hsinchu City, due to a cluster infection at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan Hospital. “This year’s Taiwan Lantern Festival will proceed as scheduled,” Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told reporters at the ministry’s new year news conference. It is coordinating with

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