The Council of Agriculture said Thursday that it will introduce subsidies for fruit and fish as exports of both plummet. The Council of Agriculture says it will subsidize shipping to help fishermen and fruit farmers explore other markets. Council Minister Chen Chi-Chung says the council will hold promotional events in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Japan in an effort to find other outlets.
Taiwan's foreign ministry said Tuesday it has contacted the Bangladesh government to explain Taiwan is not part of the People's Republic of China and urging the removal of Taiwanese from the country's entry ban on Chinese nationals amid fears over the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Taipei, Feb. 4 (CNA) Taiwan lodged a protest with the World Health Organization (WHO) after it listed 13 confirmed cases of Wuhan coronavirus for the country under the "Taiwan, China" category in a situation report Tuesday, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said that day.
The first batch of seven migrant farm workers introduced into Taiwan have recently started work on local farms, many of which are deeply troubled by an acute manpower shortage. The seven workers from Thailand, all newcomers to Taiwan, are working on local tea, vegetable and dairy farms that need greater workforces in winter -- making them the first such workers to be employed in Taiwan's agricultural sector, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Wednesday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) summoned the representative of Italy Monday morning following a flight ban imposed by the European country on Taiwan amid fears over the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, CNA learned that day. The Italian government on Jan. 31 announced a suspension of all flights from China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan from Feb. 2 to April 28 to prevent the further spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December.
The European Union has reiterated its support for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Organization. That’s as an outbreak of a novel coronavirus centered in China spreads globally. On Friday, Taiwan’s foreign ministry expressed thanks to the EU for its support.
The foreign ministry is calling on the WHO to invite Taiwanese experts to events aimed at preventing epidemics. The WHO has called two meetings to discuss an outbreak of a novel coronavirus centered in China. The outbreak has killed at least 170 and spread to at least 16 other countries, including Taiwan.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday corrected its assessment of the coronavirus from “moderate” to “high”. That’s the word from an AFP report on Tuesday. The WHO said on Sunday that the risk was “very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level."
At the Cabinet's weekly meeting Thursday, Premier Su Tseng-chang received a report on the nation's 2020 economic outlook from the National Development Council (NDC).
According to statistics collected by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), 92 more cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection were reported with no new confirmed cases on January 25, 2020. As of now, a cumulative total of 283 cases have been reported, including three confirmed cases, 124 individuals removed from the follow-up list, and 156 in isolation for lab tests among which preliminary tests were negative in 53 and test results of the others are pending.
