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Timeline COVID-19
- 1Easing the restrictions concerning visits to long-term care patients.
- 2Conditional furlough granted to individuals under home isolation/quarantine for purposes such as attending the funeral of a close relative or visiting a sick relative.
- 3Announced of the “Guidance on temporary shelters for victims in response to outbreak of COVID-19” .
- 4Shut down all host/hostess clubs and ballrooms across the country.
- 5Individuals who traveled to crowded places during public holidays are reqested to undergo 14 days of self-health monitoring.
- 6Cooperated with HTC (HTC DeepQ) and LINE, the chatbot “Disease Containment Expert Line BOT” went online.
- 7All passengers traveling on public transportation such as HSR, TRA, MRT, and buses are requested to wear masks. Maximum fine of NT$15,000 to be imposed on offenders.
- 8All HSR stations, Train stations, Post office, airports, ports, highway rest areas, and bus transfer stations were requested to moniter body temperature. Individuals suffering from fevers were not allowed to enter nor take public transportation.
- 9Formulated the "COVID-19 response guidelines": Legal accommodation providers were encouraged to join the "Relief and Epidemic Prevention Accommodation Program" with a subsidy of NT$ 1,000 per room per day eligible for epidemic prevention hotels.
- 10Restriction of all inbound travelers who need to undergo home quarantine from taking public transport such as domestic flights or ferries. Residents of offshore islands are required to quarantine on Taiwan Island.
- 11Announcement of Guidelines on Social Distancing” (1.5 meters when indoors; 1 meter when outdoors).
- 12Formulating the “Practices and Control Measures by Primary Care Clinics in Response to Atypical Pneumonia of Unknown Cause from Wuhan, China” .
- 13All levels of government agencies and professional academic associations were tasked to inform and supervise respective medical institutions and members to implement outpatient and emergency patient diversion mechanisms, as well as to restrict the number of escorts (visitor) per patient and other infection control measures.
- 14Using technology to track the status of people under home quarantine/isolation.
- 15Postponing the new semester by 2 weeks for all schools up to senior high level.
- 16Universities and colleges postponed the new semester until Feb 25th.
- 17All major television and radio broadcast channels requisitioned by the government to broadcast major epidemic prevention informaiton.
- 18In response to the postponed new school semester, parents of children aged 12 and below were entitled to take family care leave from their respective places of employment.
- 19The Epidemic Hotline Care Center was set up.
- 20Volunteers with backgrounds in nursing and hospice care recruited to conduct telephone welfare calls to individuals undergoing home quarantine and self-health monitoring.
