Ke Chih Hung is a technician with the Penghu County Agricultural and Fisheries Bureau. A 2020 recipient of the Examination Yuan’s Civil Service Outstanding Contribution Award, Ke helped create Taiwan’s first manmade marine coral garden. Seeking to restore coral larvae, he developed vibrant coral cultivation barrels that mimic the ecosystem of the South Penghu Marine National Park.

On May 13, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced 12 new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Those 12 new cases arrived in Taiwan from the Philippines (Cases #1233-1236 and Case #1238), India (Cases #1239-1244), and Uganda (Case #1237).

Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has announced a four-level system of COVID-19 alerts, each with defining criteria and a set of prevention measures to be imposed in response.
Taiwan is currently at a Level 2 alert, but Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Wednesday that the alert level could be raised to 3 “in the coming days” depending on how the situation develops.

On May 12, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced four new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Those four new cases arrived in Taiwan from the Philippines (Cases #1212-1214) and India (Case #1215).

On May 12, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported that multiple infections linked to workplace and family clusters and local cases of unknown sources of infection had been reported in Singapore recently. The CECC also pointed out that there had been a cumulative total of over 450 local confirmed cases in Vietnam since April 29. Therefore, the CECC will move Singapore and Vietnam to its list of medium-risk countries from low-risk countries, effective immediately.