COVID-19: CECC to review effectiveness of level 3 virus alert‘TENSE’ SITUATION: Taipei would today run drills, test simulated scenarios and draft contingency plans to prepare for lockdowns as part of a level 4 virus alertStaff writer, with CNAThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is this weekend reviewing the effectiveness of the level 3 COVID-19 alert and is to report its findings early this week, it said on Friday. The CECC would review the status of the outbreak in the coming days, and would likely report its conclusions to the public tomorrow or Tuesday, Chen said. Relatively few pedestrians and vehicles yesterday cross the normally busy Minquan W Road in Taipei, as restrictions imposed to contain the COVID-19 outbreak remain in effect. He made the remarks after Taipei on Friday announced that it would today hold drills to simulate a situation in which a level 4 alert was issued. “We have managed to flatten the curve in [outbreak hot spot] Wanhua District (萬華), but [the virus] is still slowly spreading in other districts,” he added.

Source: Taipei Times May 29, 2021 15:56 UTC