One day after #Taiwan's health authorities expand the level three warning to the entire country, hundreds of people across the island are expected to be fined up to $15,000 NTD for failing to wear masks in public. focustaiwan.tw/society/202105…
Kaohsiung Mayor @chimaichen said the city will issue 633 tickets for violations of the CECC guidelines that occurred over the past 24 hours. Among those violations, 604 cases involved people who ignored the mask-wearing rule, the mayor said.
Chen was one of several local government chiefs who pledged zero tolerance for those who break the rules and granted power to officers from different government departments to issue notices to people who do not wear masks in public.
Once a person who refuses to comply is issued a notice, their record of violation is referred to the health department, which then hands down a fine based on the seriousness of the violation.
Meanwhile, a man in Taipei was stopped by the police Wednesday for not wearing a mask and refusing to comply, according to the police precinct in Wanhua, where hundreds of infections have been reported, on Thursday.
The man surnamed Tang (唐) was fined NT$8,000 by the health department, according to the police station. Another eight tickets were also handed out in the southern counties of Pingtung and Chiayi.
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Wang Jing-yu openly questioned the authenticity of Chinese state media’s report that four PLA officers died during the Sino-Indian border conflict in February and he also criticized the Chinese Communist Party on Weibo.
Hours later, police in China texted him and demanded him to return to China within three days. Then his name was put on the list of wanted fugitives.
Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center confirmed that Taiwan reported 312 new local coronavirus cases on Friday, making it the seventh day in a row that Taiwan has recorded more than 100 cases in a single day.
However, the epidemic alert in Taiwan remains at level three, and Taiwan’s Health Minister Chen Shih-Chung stressed that the country is definitely not raising its level of alert to level four, which would mean a total lockdown.
Meanwhile, more cluster #COVID19 cases have been reported across #Taiwan a week after Taiwan's daily confirmed cases enter three-digit. One of the cluster cases is a group of college students in Taichung who went to karaoke on May 14 without wearing masks. udn.com/news/story/731…
At least 9 people have become confirmed cases in that cluster case so far, including one of the patients' roommate's mother and another college student from a different school who was singing in the room next door.
Meanwhile, the rapid test results show that several firefighters at the Wanhua bureau in Taipei have been positive and they have been quarantined until PCR test results confirm whether they have truly been infected or not. Wanhua is one of the #COVID19 hotspots.
As #Taiwan's Health Minister pointed out that next week will be a very important moment to see whether the measures adopted by the government have worked or not, Taiwan President @iingwen once again urged citizens not to leave their homes this weekend. udn.com/news/story/665…
Taipei Mayor @KP_Taipei, who used to be a medical doctor for decades, said the rate of positive result at all the rapid testing stations in #Taipei, one of the main hotspots of new cases, have gone from 11% on May 14 to 5.1% on May 20. newtalk.tw/news/view/2021…
Ko said theoretically, the rate of positive result needs to drop to below 3% in order for #Taipei to declare that they have the community transmission under control.