Taiwan is seeing some small outbreaks of community transmission.
Head of the Central Epidemic Control Center (CECC) announced restrictions, some of which include:
- announced tightened restrictions on outdoor and indoor gatherings
- decreasing limits to 500 and 100 people, respectively, until June 8
- Eating and drinking will also be banned on all trains and coaches till June 8
- scaled down university graduation ceremonies
- classes of more than 100 switched to remote learning
Since Monday, all citizens aged 65 and above are included in the country's vaccination program.
Taiwan has been a global leader in containing the virus:
- to date, Taiwan has reported 1,210 cases of Covid-19
- including 106 locally-transmitted cases
- 12 deaths
- 105 patients with the virus are currently hospitalized