New Taipei City: 157 (Zhonghe: 40) Taipei: 87 (Wanhua: 40) Taoyuan: 17 Yilan: 8 Changhua: 6 Keelung: 5 Kaohsiung: and Taichung 2 each
There are 63 without clear sources of infection. Wanhua travel history: 84
There is another death case, a woman in her 70s who works in Wanhua.
There are 63 without clear sources of infection. Wanhua travel history: 84
There is another death case, a woman in her 70s who works in Wanhua.
The lady who unfortunately died refused to go to the doctor in the beginning and was later found dead at home. She lived alone. Her family members have been hospitalized.
The health authorities are planning to send out warning texts to those who have stayed for an extended period of time in Wanhua between April 20 and early May but who have left #Taipei, asking them to pay attention to their own health conditions. If there are any symptoms...
... they need to go get tested at local health bureaus.
Digital minister @audreyt has developed a digital registration system for anyone who needs to go into stores or restaurants. It is now built into the Line account of the CECC.
The system is connected with the five major telecom providers and the relevant information will be saved by the service providers' systems and when there are new cases in specific locations, the government will be able to understand which area has new cases and contact the ...
... specific individuals. There is now five internal chain infections at five hospitals across #Taiwan.
Far Eastern Hospital has 14 cases. The livestream is broken.....
Heping Hospital has four new cases inside the hospital and there are a total of five people who have been infected within the hospital.
Tri Veteran hospital's Songshan Branch has one new doctor and one nurse who have also been tested positive, who are likely infected by another infected nurse who was confirmed earlier. There are three cases in total.
Chen reiterated that he still saw some media outlets going to rapid testing sites to do interview and even get close to interview some people waiting to be tested. He said these are high risk activities and some of these individuals may become positive in the next few hours.
He is also urging the media to not get together in a group and put all the microphones towards the interviewee. He said the media should send representatives to do the interviews rather than still forming a group. @heldavidson
He also reminded the media that they need to wear masks at all times and maintain social distance. Interviewees should also wear masks and microphones should always be disinfected.
Chen said he sometimes saw media outlets put the microphones close to the interviewees and put them back into their bags without disinfecting them. He said these are risky behaviors.
Chen is reminding citizens again to not leave home and go around the city. He urges them to stay home and watch TV or read. He also called on citizens from cutting down gatherings but he tells them to bear with it for a while.
He said the daily cases are now going around 200 to 300 every day and he said it seems like the trend shows that the outbreak didn't deteriorate.
He said the rate of testing positive has been dropping over time in Taipei through rapid testing.
Chen said places that will set up rapid testing stations are local hotspots and places where confirmed cases have frequently visited.
Counties that have been using rapid testing are Taipei City, New Taipei City and Changhua County. Officials said that if a number of cases are higher at a specific location, the chances of false-positive results are lower.
The media asked about the more than 20,000 undetermined test results and officials said those are the ones that are waiting to be processed because processing the tests will need time.
Officials said there are no intentions to not process all the tests and they will still share all the test results with the public.
Chen said the government is going to leave a certain amount of the new AZ vaccines for frontline medical staff and they are also going to encourage more people to get their first doses.
Around 110,000 medical staff have been vaccinated and the government will also ration how to coordinate the vaccines for those who need their second #COVID19 shots.
Around 500 people with mild symptoms have already been sent to the centralized quarantine venues or quarantine hotels with upgraded level of protection.
Today's death case was only tested positive after she died. The lady's children tried to send her to the hospital but she refused to. Family members offered her some necessities and left. Two days later, she was found dead at home.
Chen admitted that there have been a few cases of frontline journalists or their drivers that have already been tested positive for #COVID19, which is why he raised the guidelines for journalists to follow while they are out working.
Chen said citizens shouldn't be too worried if they have been to the same places as other confirmed cases if they didn't really have intensive interaction. But if there are close contact or intensive interaction, they should monitor their own health and seek medical support ...
... if they have some symptoms and share their travel history with the medical staff. However, it is really hard to determine whether one is infected or not purely based on the symptoms.
Chen said the government's priority is to comprehensively implement relevant protocols for level three warnings.
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