A kindergarten in Taoyuan has halted classes until March 1 after a new domestic COVID-19 case was discovered there, Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (???) said Wednesday.
Case, new measures in Taoyuan
A student at the kindergarten identified as a contact of an infected person — her grandfather, a police officer at Taoyuan International Airport who was confirmed to have the virus Tuesday — has tested positive, Cheng said at a press briefing.
The city government instructed the kindergarten to suspend all classes and arranged COVID-19 testing for 331 faculty members and students, according to Cheng.
Meanwhile, Taoyuan will relax some COVID-19 prevention and control measures in line with the nationwide Level 2 COVID-19 alert, Cheng said.
Under the city’s new rules, the requirement that the number of tables and seats at restaurants be 50 percent of capacity will be removed, while the city’s karaoke bars, swimming pools, spas, saunas and steam room facilities will be allowed to reopen.
Taoyuan announced in January the stricter COVID-19 control measures during the Lunar New Year holiday following the identification of several COVID-19 cluster infections in the city.
The city government will also provide NT$200 (US$7.17) in addition to the NT$200 cash certificate or gift offered by the central government in an effort to encourage more seniors to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Cheng added.
New cases in Kaohsiung
Separately, three new domestic COVID-19 cases were confirmed at Dalin Refinery Plant in Kaohsiung operated by state-owned refiner CPC Corp., Taiwan, on Wednesday.
The case involves three individuals who work on the same floor at the refinery plant. Arrangements were made for about 2,300 employees to get tested, and 89 on the same floor as the three infected workers tested negative, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel