Taiwan's health ministry is continuing to encourage more people to register for booster shots and tightening some pandemic regulations. Quick implementation is essential, as COVID-19 clusters grow and more schools and businesses suspend in-person operations.
Taiwan's health ministry is continuing to encourage more people to register for booster shots and tightening some pandemic regulations. Quick implementation is essential, as COVID-19 clusters grow and more schools and businesses suspend in-person operations. Taiwan's local COVID-19 cases are on the rise again. One of the latest cases has been identified as a worker at the Labor Ministry in Taipei.
Labor ministry official Hsu Chen-yuan says the employee did not work closely with the general public, but the ministry has closed its call center and put 69 employees in isolation. Initial testing on Monday night showed that all 69 employees tested negative for COVID-19.
In addition, a case cluster has sprung up in an apartment building in New Taipei City's Zhonghe District. New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi says the latest rapid test results have identified an additional six confirmed cases.
The wife of a professor at National Taiwan Ocean University has tested positive for the virus, causing the university to suspend classes. This woman is also a middle school teacher in Taipei's Songshan District.
The middle school principal says that 152 students and 88 teachers have already undergone testing. They also say that five classes at the school will commence remote learning and the rest will continue in-person classes.
The daughter of a migrant worker in Hsinchu has also tested positive for COVID-19, after testing negative the first two times. Health workers tested the girl after one of her parents was identified in a cluster within their work-provided housing.
The girl's class has stopped meeting in-person temporarily, and should resume a normal schedule on April 6. Hsinchu's Department of Education Director Yang Chun-tzu says the school has already isolated 72 students and 15 teachers for further monitoring and testing.
With other cases and clusters popping up around Taiwan, health authorities are urging the public to sign up for booster shots and follow pandemic protocol to prevent the virus from spreading on a larger scale.