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COVID-19: FDA probing illegal sales of test kits online
By Lin Hui-chin, Su Yung-yao and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday said it is investigating the online sale of rapid COVID-19 testing products in contravention of rules against the unlicensed sale of medical equipment and “distance” commerce.
Testing kits are classified as medical equipment and therefore can only be sold by certified vendors and pharmacies, FDA Medical Devices and Cosmetics Division specialist Lin Hsin-hui (林欣慧) said.
At present, there are no permitted “distance” channels to buy medical equipment, such as through the Internet, telemarketing, Line, Instagram or other social media platforms, Lin added.
COVID-19: President Tsai Ing-wen tests negative for COVID-19
Staff writer, with CNA
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took a COVID-19 test, which came back negative, after a volunteer caring for her dogs tested positive for the disease, Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang (張惇涵) said on Thursday.
Tsai took a polymerase chain reaction test shortly after the Presidential Office on Wednesday was alerted that the volunteer had tested positive, Chang said.
The volunteer, who lives in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和), last visited Tsai’s official residence on Tuesday last week from 9am to 5:40pm, during which the volunteer did not have contact with the president, Chang said.
CECC reports 29 local COVID-19 cases
TRACING TROUBLE: An infected man who had said that all his children were abroad was found to have a daughter in Kaohsiung who tested positive, the center said
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported a new daily record of 29 local COVID-19 cases, including seven cases with unknown sources of infection.
Of the 29 cases, 16 are linked to tea houses in Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華), Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news briefing in Taipei.
The 16 are tea house workers or visitors, or their contacts, the CECC said.