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by Shaun Tandon with Amber Wang in Taipei Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday accused the World Health Organization of putting politics first by ignoring early coronavirus warnings by Taiwan, which voiced outrage over criticism from the UN body’s chief. President Donald Trump has gone on an offensive with threats to withhold funding for the WHO, which is at the forefront of fighting the pandemic that has […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan demanded an apology from the World Health Organization chief on Thursday after he accused the island’s government of leading personal attacks against him and his agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for unity to fight the disease on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump criticized the global health body and threatened to cut its funding. During the press conference he spoke of the […]
The self-ruled democratic island has had to scramble its own fighter jets in response to recent Chinese maneuvers, designed to show that Beijing’s military might remains unbowed by the health crisis. But the tactic is winning few friends among the Taiwanese. “As the world grapples with the severity of the COVID19 pandemic, China’s military maneuvers around Taiwan have continued unabated,” President Tsai Ing-wen said in a tweet late Tuesday accompanied by pictures of her visiting […]
by Sean Chang and Amber Wang TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Behind the barbed wire-topped fences of Taipei Prison, a small group of inmates are hunched over clacking sewing machines, working overtime to churn out face masks and help ward off the new coronavirus. Usually, the men would be making prison uniforms in the bright-lit sewing factory in the city of Taoyuan. But after the coronavirus spread to Taiwan they switched to making masks, putting together […]
(Eagle News) — A Taiwanese national who tested positive for the novel coronavirus visited Makati, the local government said on Monday, March 9. In a statement, Mayor Abby Binay said the Makati Health Department has, however, already located the people he may have had contact with, and “with the exception of another Taiwanese national who was confirmed positive with COVID-19, all the rest did not show symptoms.” “However, they have been instructed to undergo strict […]
(Eagle News) A Taiwanese national who travelled to the Philippines with his friends from Feb. 28 to March 3 was found to be positive with the novel 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) when he came back to Taiwan. This was according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control. In a statement, it said that the over 30-year old Taiwanese national, which it referred to as Case #44, resides in northern Taiwan but came to the […]
(Eagle News) — Filipinos working in Hong Kong and Macau are now allowed to resume work in those places after they were exempted by the government from the imposed travel ban amid the novel coronavirus threat. In a tweet, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Brigido Dulay said the exemption from the outbound travel ban was made by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases “subject to certain procedural formalities.” No other details were available. The Philippine […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan reported its first death from the new coronavirus Sunday, as the death toll from the outbreak rose to 1,665 inside mainland China. A 61-year-old man from central Taiwan with underlying health problems but no recent overseas travel history died in hospital on Saturday after testing positive for the virus, officials confirmed. It is the fifth recorded death outside mainland China — previous victims were in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, […]
(Eagle News)–Cebu Pacific on Friday, Feb. 14, announced the resumption of flights between the Philippines and Taiwan. According to CebuPac, the following flights will resume: February 17- until further notice Manila-Taipei 5J 310 (Departs at 10:40 p.m.) February 18 – until further notice Taipei-Manila 5J 311 (Flight departs at 1:45 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday and at 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday) February 21, 2020-until further notice Manila-Taipei 5J 312 (Departs […]
(Eagle News) — The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines on Friday, Feb. 14, welcomed the Philippine government’s lifting of the Taiwan travel ban amid the novel coronavirus threat. In a statement, TECO reiterated that Taiwan has “taken all measures needed to contain the spread” of COVID-19″ and will “continue to work closely with the international community, including the Philippines, to fight” the virus to “safeguard the health and welfare of humanity.” It […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine government is lifting the travel ban it had earlier imposed on Taiwan, Malacanang confirmed on Friday. Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) has resolved to lift the travel restrictions imposed upon Taiwan effective immediately. “Accordingly, travel may now be made by any national to Taiwan from the Philippines and vice versa,” he said. Panelo explained that the members […]
(Eagle News) — Taiwan on Tuesday, Feb. 11, said that it would continue to communicate with the Philippine government in hopes of reversing a travel ban that the Philippines had imposed on Taiwan because of the novel coronavirus scare. Taiwan’s foreign ministry said that it was “wrong” for Taiwan to be confused with China after the Philippines included Taiwan on Monday in its travel ban, citing the World Health Organization (WHO) classification on Taiwan […]
