Taiwan’s gold medal winners from International Exhibition for Young Inventors 2019 were presented with awards by Chu Nan-shyan, chief secretary of the Ministry of Education, March 13 at MOE headquarters in Taipei City.
Migrant workers who travel outside Taiwan will be temporarily barred from returning until the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic subsides, Vice Labor Minister Lin San-quei said Tuesday. The temporary entry ban is part of the government's latest preventative measures against the spread of COVID-19 and was announced at the daily Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) press conference.
On March 17, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has expanded to Asian countries outside China, with more than 10,000 confirmed cases and the number continuing to increase. Numerous countries have declared the outbreak a national emergency and introduced strict border control and quarantine measures. Recently, the epidemic situation in the United States has also escalated.
Air New Zealand announced Tuesday it will halt flights between Auckland and Taipei due to the measures being taken by its government to curb the global spread of the novel coronavirus. All flights between Auckland Airport and Taoyuan International Airport will be suspended from March 30 to June 30, the airline said after New Zealand government's announced on March 14 that everybody arriving in the country, including New Zealanders, would be required to self-isolate for 14 days.
