Virus Outbreak: CECC mulls requiring two negative tests for dischargeAIR TRAVEL: CECC advisory specialist panel convener Chang Shan-chwen said some countries ‘are negotiating the possibility of resuming international travel with us’By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported no new cases of COVID-19, and said that it is considering revising the discharge criteria for confirmed COVID-19 cases from three consecutive negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to two. Yesterday marked the ninth consecutive day of no new COVID-19 cases in Taiwan and the 59th consecutive day of no locally transmitted cases. The panel has submitted its recommendation and now the center would decide whether to adopt it, he added. “There are some countries that are negotiating the possibility of resuming international travel with us now — and the news from Vietnam is fairly accurate,” he said. Chen Tsung-yen also announced that Olympic table tennis player Chiang Hung-chieh (江宏傑) would serve as the center’s new disease prevention ambassador, helping it to promote the “new disease prevention lifestyle.”

Source: Taipei Times June 10, 2020 15:56 UTC