The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 334 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, 256 backlogged local cases and six deaths, while adding that its specialist advisory panel has suggested extending the nationwide level 3 alert.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the new local infections were 157 males and 177 females, who suffered the onset of symptoms between May 10 and Sunday.
Most of the cases live in New Taipei City 177, including 43 in Banciao District (板橋) followed by 99 cases in Taipei, including 38 in Wanhua District (萬華), 19 in
Move over Bruce Wayne
Independent Pingtung County Councilor Chiang Yueh-hui, center, wears a bat costume as she and other campaigners outside Fangliao Station in Pingtung County yesterday petition against a photoelectric factory being built near a World War II Japanese fort at Shihtouying. The fort’s underground tunnels are inhabited by several bat species.
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Botulism suspected behind bird deaths: Pingtung official
By Chen Yen-ting / Staff reporter
Sightings of dead ducks and other large birds in wetland areas in Pingtung County’s Donggang Township (東港) have sparked concern among local wildlife advocates and led to calls for immediate action by authorities.
An outbreak of botulism, caused by the neurotoxin-producing
Clostridium botulinum, last year caused the death of a large number of wild birds near the mouth of the Kaoping River (高屏溪), a situation that authorities worry might recur.
Populations of ducks, herons and various species of the
Charadriidae family have in the past few years increased in the wetlands near Dapeng Bay (大鵬灣) and elsewhere in the township.