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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"The list, which analysts believe was compiled in 2018 at the latest, contains entries for individuals from all walks of life in Uyghur society, including ordinary citizens, children as young as five and six years old, senior citizens in their 80s, and ...
... Uyghurs who have lived and traveled abroad, as well as Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who have never been abroad before."
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.
Additionally, #HongKong government also issued a statement today, asking all contract government workers to pledge allegiance to the Basic Law and SAR government starting July 1 onward. This is the ongoing move to purge the city's government and ...
... political system, expanding the pool of people that are required to pledge allegiance in order for them to keep their jobs.
Local media in #HongKong reported that at least 30 pro-democracy district councilors have resigned from their posts, citing the refusal to take the oath which is now required by law as the main reason.