‘REMAIN VIGILANT’: People who are planning to travel during the Worker’s Day holiday must still follow disease prevention measures, the minister of he
STEP BY STEP: Asked about the drug remdesivir failing a clinical trial, Chang Shan-chwen said that any conclusions made before firms issue evaluations
KEY DIFFERENCE: As opposed to the SARS outbreak in 2003, central and local governments have joined forces to combat the novel coronavirus, Chen Chien-
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported one new COVID-19 case, a cadet who had been aboard the nav
MONITORED: The center sent texts to more than 200,000 people who had been to places visited by the infected sailors, urging them to practice self-heal
NAVAL CLUSTER: The CECC is not going to classify the cases from the ‘Panshih’ as imported or domestic until it completes its investigations into the s
THREE CASES: Crews of Taiwan’s ‘Friendship Flotilla’ were not allowed to disembark until 30 days after leaving Palau and medical staff reported no inf
LOOKING SOUTHBOUND: The CECC is mulling stricter quarantine measures for travelers from Southeast Asia, where the pandemic appears to be worsening
‘VERY WILLING’: Health authorities voiced their hope in a WHO conference call that Taiwan could participate in more WHO events and share its experienc
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterFive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed yesterday, all imported: four Taiwanese who had been passengers on the Coral Princ
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced three new cases of COVID-19 — two imported and one domest
‘LOOKS ENCOURAGING’: The results are not enough to draw definitive conclusions, but the observations are hopeful, the study’s lead author Jonathan Gre
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced three new cases of COVID-19, all of them imported, bringi
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterFormer Tourism Bureau director-general Chou Yung-hui (周永暉) has been demoted to a Ministry of Transportation and Commun
CASE COUNT: Three of the new cases are people who had been on a group tour to Austria and the Czech Republic, while another is a woman who visited Mor
ORGANIZING HELP A group of lawmakers said that Taiwan should develop a way to allow people to donate masks and for other countries to request medical
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterSeven new cases of COVID-19, including one domestic case, were reported yesterday by the Central Epidemic Command Center
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center yesterday released a set of revised criteria for reporting suspected COVID-19 cases,
DISTRUST WARRANTED? The WHO is under China’s control and has become a useless organization, while data from China cannot be trusted, a Control Yuan me
KEEP AWAY: People should wear a mask in places where they cannot follow social distancing rules, the CECC said, adding that it would publish detailed