GOOD SIGN: After reporting no domestic cases for 44 days, Chen Shih-chung said event rules would be relaxed, but people should still practice social distancing or wear masks
Taipei Times
Date: May 27, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Spectators cheer during a CPBL game between the Rakuten Monkeys and the Uni-President Lions in Taoyuan on Sunday. The Central Epidemic Command Center yesterday announced that Taiwan could lift restrictions on large gatherings if there are no new domestically transmitted infections by Sunday next week.
Photo: CNA
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that there were no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections yesterday, and a total of 416 infected patients have been removed from isolation after treatment.
While confirmed cases continued to increase globally, reaching more than 5.5 million yesterday, there have been no domestic cases in Taiwan for 44 consecutive days, he said.
Infection control measures would continue to be strictly implemented at national borders, while large-scale easing of domestic rules would begin on Sunday next week, Chen said, adding that by then, there would probably have been no domestic cases for eight weeks.
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