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