CECC reports three new cases connected to hotelLOOKING FOR ORIGIN: Hotel staff might have contracted COVID-19 after cleaning the rooms of pilots from foreign airlines, the head of the center saidBy Lin Hui-chin / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported seven new COVID-19 cases, including three domestic ones linked to Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport. 1,120) had tested positive for the virus, while 412 people at the hotel were moved to government quarantine facilities and received virus tests. Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei TimesAmong them, three hotel employees, all Taiwanese, tested positive for the virus yesterday, Chen said. The government would no longer use Novotel to quarantine foreign pilots and instead has found two other Taoyuan hotels to accommodate them, he said. The four imported cases reported yesterday arrived from Egypt, India, Kazakhstan and the Philippines, the CECC said.

Source: Taipei Times April 30, 2021 15:56 UTC