Visits to hospital patients banned in 3 cities amid COVID spread 05/04/2021 05:30 PM CNA file photo Taipei, May 4 (CNA) Over the next two weeks, visits to patients hospitalized in Taipei, New Taipei and Taoyuan will not be allowed, as part of an effort to stop the spread of domestic COVID-19 infections, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Tuesday. The ban will remain in effect May 4-17 and will include long-term care facilities, said the CECC, which has been working to contain a cluster of domestic COVID-19 cases linked to a local airline and an airport hotel in Taoyuan. In a press statement, the CECC said it was imposing the restriction, with some conditions, because it had found during its contact tracing that some of the people in the cluster had been traveling around the three cities.