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.
Ko said since the number of confirmed cases is very high right now, a lot of the patients whose rapid test and PCR test results are positive will be sent to large quarantine hotels and live there until they can be discharged.
Or they will live there for 10 days and get another PCR test. If the test result shows that their CT rate is larger than 30, then that means their viral load is very low so they can be discharged.
And since patients with mild symptoms are not looked after by regular hotel staff, he is recruiting some nurses and medical staff to be in charge of that. According to him, the city will train one group of them, and then they will gradually turn to recruiting more.
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