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Timeline COVID-19
- 241Effective May 1, regular rapid testing measures to be removed for residential long-term care facilities, residential psychiatric rehabilitation centers, psychiatric service institutions, and veterans homes; weekly rapid tests remain mandatory for care recipients and regular testing extended until May 31 in nursing homes and senior welfare institutions
- 242CECC revises criteria for release from isolation for confirmed COVID-19 cases (with complications)
- 243Vaccination leave policy to be ended along with disbandment of CECC; general leave rules to apply to COVID-19 vaccinations as epidemic prevention work has become normalized
- 244CECC to adjust testing measures for inpatients and individuals accompanying patients to hospitals on April 10; other control measures for visitors and individuals accompanying patients remain unchanged
- 245In response to widespread transmission of Delta variant globally and the family cluster involving Taiwanese airline pilot, CECC’s tightened quarantine measures for flight crews after their return take effect from September 3
- 246CECC announces plans to relax mask rules on public transportation; eased rules scheduled to take effect on April 17 if pandemic situation remains stable
- 247Name-based rapid test distribution system to remain in place until April 30 and be discontinued as of May 1 as it has served its purpose in previous stages of pandemic
- 248Taiwan's digital COVID-19 certificate to be available for domestic use starting 8 a.m. on Jan. 21
- 249The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus concurs with the advice offered by the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee regarding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and determines that the event continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January.
- 250The first known death from an illness caused by 2019-nCoV in Wuhan City.
- 251WHO recommended not to impose any form of travel restrictions.
- 252WHO issued a comprehensive package of technical guidance with advice to all countries on how to detect, test and manage potentail cases.
- 253Taiwan sent two experts to Wuhan and visited the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention as well as hospitals where infected patients were being treated.
- 254WHO noted in a press briefing there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, mainly through family members.
- 255To formally classify "Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens" as a Category 5 Notifiable Disease to strengthen disease surveillance and prevention.
- 256Wuhan City was raised to a Level 2 (Alert) Travel Notice destination.
- 257Taiwan established a Level 3 “Central Epidemic Command Center for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens”
- 25817th batch of 918,400 doses of BNT donated by TSMC, Hon Hai Yonglin, and Tzu Chi arrives in Taiwan on morning of Jan. 27
- 259CECC thanks everyone for standing with them over this 1,194-day journey, welcomes post-pandemic life
- 260COVID-19 RT-PCR test reports required for inbound passengers must be issued within two days which is based on specimen collection date
