Eid al-Fitr celebration at Taipei Main Station canceled
05/09/2021 03:44 PM
The Eid al-Fitr celebration held outside Taipei Main Station in 2020. CNA file photo
Taipei, May 9 (CNA) A planned Eid al-Fitr celebration originally set to take place early Thursday near Taipei Main Station has been canceled to avoid large gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, its organizers announced Sunday.
The celebration for Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month on the Islamic calendar, was supposed to be held at 6 a.m. on May 13 at a plaza near the station, according to its organizer, the Global Workers Organization (GWO).
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Eid al-Fitr feast canceled
An Eid al-Fitr celebration scheduled to take place at 6am on Thursday near Taipei Railway Station has been canceled to avoid large gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the event organizers said yesterday. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month on the Islamic calendar, the Global Workers’ Organization said. However, due to the pandemic, the organization and local Indonesian Muslim groups have jointly decided to cancel the gathering, it said, calling on Taiwan’s Muslims to break their month-long fast at home. The cancelation is in response to three people testing positive for the virus after visiting the Taipei Grand Mosque on April 16 for a gathering, it added.
2021/04/27 17:25 (Facebook, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology photo) (Facebook, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) on Tuesday (April 27) made the decision to switch to online instruction for all classes until May 3, after 65 people from the school were found to have visited Taipei Grand Mosque on the same day as three COVID-19 cases. The Central Epidemic Command Center said Friday that an Indonesian cargo pilot and two of his contacts, who had all tested positive for COVID-19, attended an event at Taipei Grand Mosque on April 16 with 400 others, raising concerns about a domestic cluster. It was later confirmed that 65 students and faculty members from NTUST were at the same event, and they were asked to undergo quarantine.
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University identifies 65 people in COVID-19 contact tracing
04/26/2021 12:22 PM
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Taipei, April 26 (CNA) National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) said Sunday it had traced 65 students and teachers who had possibly had contact with three infected COVID-19 people at a recent mosque gathering.
All 65 people, most of them students, have been asked to stay in isolation and observe self-health management, according to a Taiwan Tech spokesperson.
The contact tracing was carried out after Taiwan health authorities were informed on April 21 that a pilot with the country s major carrier China Airlines (CAL) had tested positive for COVID-19 in Australia, a few days after he attended a religious gathering in Taipei, the spokesperson said.