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Timeline COVID-19
- 1Hospitals implemented access control measures. Except for under special circumstances, it is forbidden to visit the hospital for non-medical visits.
- 2Compensation plan on restricting overseas travel for medical personnel and social workers.
- 3Additional measures announced for “strengthening control of persons entering/exiting hospitals”.
- 4In response to the first medical facility cluster, hospitals were requested to carry out environmental cleansing, disinfection, and infection control measures.
- 5CECC eases visitor restrictions at healthcare facilities
- 6CECC further relaxes restrictions concerning attending funerals and visiting relatives for people in home isolation or quarantine
- 7In response to one new case from nosocomial infection in a northern Taiwan hospital, CECC continues to strengthen prevention and control measures for the hospital
- 8CECC adjusts visitor restrictions and personnel management measures for healthcare facilities
- 9CECC expands home isolation measure to include contacts related to hospital cluster infection, effective immediately
- 10Hospitals in Taipei City, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City to suspend visitation starting from January 27, 2021, with certain exceptions; only one person can be allowed to accompany a patient
- 11Starting on February 7, 2021, CECC removes electronic self-health management designation on NHI cards of Taoyuan General Hospital employees and patients who visited the outpatient and emergency departments of the hospital
- 12Hospitals in Taipei City, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City to allow visitation again and follow current regulations starting February 10, 2021
- 13Hospitals and long-term care facilities in Taipei City, New Taipei City, and Taoyuan City to suspend visitation from today to May 17, 2021, with certain exceptions; only one person can be allowed to accompany a patient
- 14To improve COVID-19 reporting and testing, CECC offers bonus to eligible healthcare facilities
- 15Hospitals and long-term care facilities in Taiwan to suspend visitation from May 11 to June 8 with certain exceptions; only one person can be allowed to accompany one patient or resident
- 16In response to community transmission stage of COVID-19, CECC announces four major medical response strategies to maintain medical capacities
- 17Hospitals across Taiwan to suspend visitation and to allow only one person to accompany a patient in the hospital; measures remain in place during the effective period of nationwide Level 3 epidemic alert. In addition to the visitation ban, long-term care facilities must ask residents to avoid going out and must enhance access control and conduct temperature-taking and health monitoring measures among staff, residents, caregivers, and caregivers or people accompanying residents
- 18To mitigate medical care load of severe COVID-19 cases, CECC purchases drugs for combined use in monoclonal antibody therapy to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 cases at risk of developing severe cases
- 19CECC conditionally relaxes visitation management measures for residential long-term care facilities according to risk of community infection in cities and counties
- 20Starting August 24, 2021, hospitals in Taiwan to conditionally allow visitation and adjust screening measures for inpatients and individuals accompanying inpatients in cities with risks
