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Timeline COVID-19
- 21Holding the1st Meeting on “Emergency response measures to pneumonia of an unknown cause originating from China”, culminating in the establishment of the Epidemic Response Team. Official notice sent to all medical institutions to request physicians to report all cases with suspected symptoms and patients with travel history from Wuhan.
- 22WHO launched the WHO's health alert on WhatsApp in Arabia, Frence and Spain.
- 23The Chinese authorities claimed to identify a new type of coronavirus, which was named novel coronavirus, nCoV.
- 24Security alert level raised for all international and cross-strait ports of entry/exit.
- 25Officials confirmed a case of COVID-19 in Thailand, which was imported from China and the first recorded case outside of China globally.
- 26Formulating the “Practices and Control Measures by Primary Care Clinics in Response to Atypical Pneumonia of Unknown Cause from Wuhan, China” .
- 27China publicly shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus.
- 28Completed a comprehensive nation-wide assessment in accordance with WHO’s “National Capacities Review Tool for a Novel Coronavirus”.
- 29Japan reported the first imported case of laboratory-confirmed 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
- 30Starting from January 1, CECC to tighten health and disease prevention and control measures for flight crew members of Taiwan-based airlines
- 31Government-funded regular rapid testing measures in residential, community care institutions extended until August 31 to protect health of care recipients and staff in these institutions
- 32Individuals aged 18 or older who have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine for 12 weeks can schedule their booster dose appointment on COVID-19 Vaccination Registration and Reservation system in 24th round starting Feb. 23
- 33CECC revises criteria for releasing COVID-19 patients with moderate and severe symptoms from isolation to preserve isolation care capacity
- 34CECC to help local governments set up six main vaccination stations for children aged 5-11 on June 1
- 35To ensure health of children aged 0-6, children in age group can get five free at-home rapid antigen test kits
- 36CECC announces ACIP's recommendations on use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years of age
- 37Effective from August 15, Taiwan to remove requirement that inbound passengers should provide COVID-19 PCR test result within two days of flight schedule time
- 38First batch of 1.2768 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for kids purchased by CECC arrives in Taiwan on morning of August 19
- 39CECC raises epidemic warning to Level 3 nationwide from May 19 to May 28; strengthened measures and restrictions introduced across Taiwan to reduce community transmission
- 40CECC procures 700,000 courses of oral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid; 350,000 courses of Paxlovid to arrive before second quarter
