Timeline COVID-19
- 1Assisted Taiwan’s diplomatic allies with fighting the pandemic. Specimens from Palau were sent to Taiwan to test for COVID-19.
- 2Taiwan and USA signed “Taiwan-U.S. Joint Statement on a Partnership against Coronavirus” and agreed to jointly develop vaccines and medicine to combat COVID-19.
- 3Central Epidemic Command Center announces to establish a “Platform for the Registration of Intention to Participate in Clinical Trials of COVID-19 Vaccines”.
- 4CECC established the “Novel Coronavirus Screening and Analysis Technical Support Platform,” aiming to enhance Taiwan’s research and development capabilities.
- 5For reported cases of severe complicated influenza, symptom surveillance of possible upper respiratory tract illnesses, and other potential community spread events from January 31, even if the testing results were negative, patients were tested for possible COVID-19 infection
- 6TFDA approves import of anti-viral drug remdesivir to ensure treatment of patients with severe COVID-19.
- 7CECC further loosens restrictions on applicants requesting COVID-19 testing to allow people requiring testing for other reasons to undergo testing at their own expense.
- 8CECC loosens restrictions on applicants requesting COVID-19 testing at their own expense as Taiwan’s coronavirus numbers stabilize.
- 9Screening stations set up at MOTC's subordinate airports; travelers with symptoms not allowed to board their flight and those who have experienced symptoms in past 14 days required to undergo rapid testing and have negative result before boarding
- 10CECC to provide rapid PCR machines to community screening sites across Taiwan to facilitate testing process
- 11Pooled testing adopted to effectively control risks, increase community PCR testing capacity and quickly break chain of transmission
- 12Government-funded PCR testing available at some clinics beginning today; people testing positive with rapid antigen tests or with symptoms urged to get PCR tests at these clinics
- 13Taiwan CDC provides details about "SARS-CoV-2 seroepidemiologic survey and long-term trend analysis project"
- 14Effective from June 21, definition of confirmed case revised to include individuals who test positive with SARS-CoV-2 at-home PCR test kit approved by Taiwan's FDA and have their results confirmed by doctors
- 15To start regular surveillance of seropositivity of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, Taiwan Blood Services Foundation to implement SARS-CoV-2 antibody surveillance system