TAIPEI — Taiwan began moving more than 400 people to a centralized quarantine facility on Thursday from an airport hotel after a rare domestic outbreak of COVID-19, and will sterilize the entire hotel building. Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control because of early and effective prevention, including largely closing its borders. Most cases have been imported from abroad, though the island has reported sporadic domestic infections in recent months. ADVERTISEMENTSince last week it has reported COVID-19 infections in nine freighter pilots from Taiwan’s largest carrier, China Airlines Ltd, some of whom had been staying at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel, now being evacuated. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters that an infected hotel worker was in intensive care and that the government had decided to move all 412 people at the hotel, including pilots and staff, to a centralized quarantine facility for tests.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 29, 2021 08:26 UTC