The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday opened an investigation into the Taipei-based Good Liver Clinic after allegations that it gave free COVID-19 vaccine shots to people not in groups eligible to receive them.
Prior to Wednesday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) had only authorized three groups of people in Taipei to receive shots: The first priority group, composed of registered healthcare workers and other non-healthcare workers at healthcare facilities; the second priority group, composed of central and local government disease prevention personnel; and the third priority group, composed of frontline workers with high infection risk exposure, such as flight or
By Tsai Ssu-pei and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter and staff writer, with CNATaipei police yesterday apprehended a COVID-19 patient after he allegedly escaped from a hospital isolation ward following a scuffle with officers.
COVID-19 patient arrested after fleeing Taipei hospital
By Tsai Ssu-pei and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter and staff writer, with CNA
Taipei police yesterday apprehended a COVID-19 patient after he allegedly escaped from a hospital isolation ward following a scuffle with officers.
The man, surnamed Chen (陳), 71, was arrested at his residence in Wanhua District (萬華) hours after his flight from the hospital, a Taipei Police Department spokesman said.
Chen, a confirmed COVID-19 case who was supposed to be undergoing quarantine, at about half past midnight yesterday allegedly visited the emergency room of Taipei City Hospital’s Renai branch complaining of a headache and insomnia, the spokesman said.
Cockroach attack suspects indicted on coercion charges
Staff writer, with CNA
Taipei prosecutors on Tuesday indicted four people suspected of releasing 1,000 live cockroaches into a Taipei restaurant earlier this month allegedly to settle an outstanding debt.
The main suspect, surnamed Wu (吳), and three male accomplices were charged with coercion, as well as disrupting public order and endangering public safety, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office said in the indictment.
The act of tossing live cockroaches into a restaurant occupied by customers and employees was meant to create public fear, and it also jeopardized the freedom and right of the restaurant to do business, prosecutors said.
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