Timeline COVID-19
- 581Individuals working in the passenger transport sector, bus drivers, taxi drivers, car rentals and cargo transport drivers as well as other frontline staff are eligible to purchase one medical-grade mask per day
- 582Supply of rationed face masks increased from 1.65 million pieces daily to 3.96 million pieces daily.
- 583246 Taiwan nationals returned from Wuhan on first charter flight were closely monitored in centralized quarantine facilities. They were later discharged from quarantine.
- 584WHO's situation report confirmed that cases involving human-to-human transmission appeared in 12 countries outside of China.
- 585Successful replication of antiviral drug remdesivir by a Taiwan research team that successfully synthesized 100mg worth of remdesivir.
- 586Non-NHI contracted medical institutions can apply for NHI information virtual private network (VPN) to get patient’s travel and contact history.
- 587Executive Yuan approved a special bill “Special Act for Prevention, Relief and Revitalization Measures for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens” (draft).
- 588Korea Travel Notice raised to Level 1 (Watch).
- 58919 Taiwanese nationals from the Diamond Princess cruise ship safely returned to Taiwan. Two rounds of testing turned out negative for COVID-19 infections. All 19 Taiwanese nationals underwent strict 14-day quarantine.
- 590Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the window of opportunity to contain the outbreak was narrowing.
- 591Japan and Korea Travel Notice raised to Level 2 (Alert).
- 592Age restrictions widened on the purchase of kid’s masks, from 12 to 13 years of age and below.
- 593Iran and Italy Travel Notice raised to Level 1 (Watch).
- 594Compensation plan on restricting overseas travel for medical personnel and social workers.
- 595Taiwan to start offering COVID-19 vaccine to disease prevention and control personnel at central and local governments and workers at high risk of exposure on April 12, 2021
- 596WHO stated that the COVID-19 outbreak was not yet a pandemic, as it was niether spreading internationally in an uncontrolled way, nor causing large-scale of deaths.
- 597The WHO mission hold a press conference on 9 Feb. in Wuhan, China to summarize the mission’s findings
- 598Global leaders unite in urgent call for building a more robust international health architecture
- 599First batch of oral antiviral Molnupiravir drug for COVID-19 purchased by Taiwan arrives
- 600Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) had completed the vaccine inspections and issued the lot release certificate of the first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.