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Breaking: #Taiwan reported 28 local cases, 3 imported cases and 4 deaths.

New Taipei: 12 Taipei: 11. Chen said the overall number of cases is still at a lower point. He said there are still more cases that need to be investigated.

@audreyt showed up at the presser for the first time. She said it's happy to see everyone actively using the nationwide online vaccination registration system.

Tang said the timeline of registration is a bit accelerated than usual. She said as long as those qualified for signing up vaccination registration before 5 PM July 12 and if they have selected AZ, they will receive a text message starting on July 13.

The content of the SMS is reminding those who are qualified for vaccination to sign up and the start vaccination date is July 16. The first three tiers of the sign-up will all be AZ vaccines. The sign up date is between July 13 and July 16.

Chen said the signing of contracts between Terry Gou's foundation and TSMC is ongoing and he says too much speculation will not be helpful for the signing of the contract and the government will offer more information once the details are more confirmed.

Chen is explaining that for patients with symptoms, they will push back three days as the "transmission period" for them to map out who will need to be quarantined and tested and for those who have no symptoms, they will date back three days from the date they get ...

... tested to test and quarantine individuals.

Chen said local governments have the power to determine whether they will start allowing restaurants that fit certain criteria to start allowing dining in. He said each local government will make decisions based on their conditions and the CECC will respect those decisions.

The CECC said the first dose of AZ's reaction is usually swelling at the injection point and fever but Moderna's first dose has less reactions.

Chen said gradually, international traveling will resume before 2023 as individuals need to be able to cope with the transmission of the virus like it's seasonal flu. He said if everyone can only resume international traveling by 2023, that will be bad.

Individuals that will fit for immediate second-dose vaccination will be medical staff, pilots and pregnant women. Other individuals may face a slightly prolonged waiting period based on opinions offered by CECC experts, according to Chen.