Miaoli quarantine hotel fined over poor sanitationBy Yang Mien-chieh and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Miaoli County Government fined a COVID-19 quarantine hotel for poor sanitation and inadequate service, it said on Friday, after the Consumers’ Foundation publicized complaints about the venue. Guests who stayed at the hotel as part of their mandatory 14-day quarantines have lodged multiple complaints about the establishment, the foundation said. The Miaoli County Culture and Tourism Bureau said that inspectors were dispatched to evaluate the hotel in response to the complaints. The establishment was fined and its license to operate as a quarantine hotel is to be suspended from Thursday next week, it said. The bureau said that the hotel can reapply for a license after it makes efforts to bring its facilities up to the required sanitation code.

Source: Taipei Times September 18, 2021 15:56 UTC