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Timeline COVID-19
- 661Starting April 19, NHI-contracted pharmacies and local health centers to stop selling face masks on Sundays
- 662CECC strengthens disease prevention and management measures for flight crews of foreign and Taiwanese airlines
- 66311th round of name-based rationing system for at-home COVID-19 rapid test kits to begin on March 1, and people can purchase rapid tests with their NHI cards; children six and under and elderly people 65 and older who are eligible for free rapid tests should collect rapid tests with their NHI card as soon as possible, and these two distributing programs will end on Feb. 28 this year as scheduled
- 664CECC increases distribution points of government-funded COVID-19 home test kits and releases information on community testing facilities to enhance community surveillance; individuals needing test kits or tests can visit such locations to obtain services
- 665Foreign workers not required to undergo PCR testing before employer transfers or being assigned to different work sites if fully vaccinated against COVID-19
- 666Fourth batch of 590,400 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children purchased by CECC arrives in Taiwan on morning of July 4
- 667Effective immediately, weekly cap of arrivals increased to 40,000; starting July 14, R.O.C. nationals, ARC holders, transit passengers to be exempt from providing PCR test results within two days of their flight
- 668Taiwan's Digital COVID-19 Certificate system to provide vaccination certificates in SHC format used by US, Japan, Canada, Australia
- 669Individuals 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 starting Jan.18
- 670Starting today, hospitals in Taipei City, New Taipei City, Keelung City, Taoyuan City, Kaohsiung City, and Hualien County to ban visitation with certain exceptions
- 671CECC draws up Definition and Principles for Handling Reinfection in Confirmed Cases
- 6722.5 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the U.S. government to arrive in Taiwan on evening of June 20
- 6731.5 million doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the U.S. government arrive in Taiwan on November 1
- 674ACIP's COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children aged 6 months to 5 years, 5-11-year-olds, airport/port workers, home quarantine workers, airline crews, and workers in care institutions and social welfare system
- 675The “Special Act for Prevention, Relief and Revitalization Measures for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens” was promulgated by President Tsai Ing-Wen. A NT$ 60 billion special budget was allocated to provide relief to affected businesses.
- 676Italy Travel Notice raised to Level 2 (Alert).
- 677Additional measures announced for “strengthening control of persons entering/exiting hospitals”.
- 678Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) upgraded to become a Level 1 facility, with Minister of Health and Welfare Shih-Chung Chen continuing to lead as the Commander.
- 679WHO raised risk level of COVID-19 to very high at the global level.
- 680In response to the first medical facility cluster, hospitals were requested to carry out environmental cleansing, disinfection, and infection control measures.
