RELAXING CONTROLS: As the nation has sufficiently ramped up mask production, sales would be allowed to resume and a limit on sending masks is to be lifted

Taipei Times
Date: May 28, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

A “new disease prevention lifestyle” is mainly being promoted as part of preparations for the loosening of border controls, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said yesterday, as the nation marked the 45th day of no local COVID-19 infections.

A total of 419 patients have been released from isolation after treatment, said Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).

A group of 96 Taiwanese who had been stranded in Russia due to the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday returned to Taiwan, nine of whom reported suspected symptoms after arrival: two with diarrhea and seven with respiratory symptoms, including one who also developed an abnormal sense of smell, he said at the CECC’s daily news conference in Taipei.

The results of the first round of testing on the nine people yesterday returned negative, Chen said, adding that the other 87 people would also be tested.    [FULL  STORY]