On April 30, three new COVID-19 cases announced were all employees at a quarantine hotel near the airport, called the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel. The Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel is mostly used by the China Airlines and other carriers for their crew members.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that in consideration of the possible risk of transmission in an airport quarantine hotel where several of its staff members were confirmed to have COVID-19, it would launch an investigation into the number of flight crewmembers who had checked out of the quarantine hotel between April 15 and April 28 and would impose an expanded home isolation order for those crewmembers.
And the CECC mentioned, the Novotel hotel at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport will no longer provide accommodation for foreign pilots. And if the coronavirus keeps raging on, the Novotel hotel still will not host foreign pilots.
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As for the pilots who have already contacted the coronavirus, CECC has already arranged two hotels in Taoyuan as the quarantine hotel for foreign pilots.
CECC says, beginning May 3, the government-funded COVID-19 vaccine would be available to people living with healthcare personnel, disease prevention and control staff at the central and local governments and front-line workers at high risk of exposure, who are individuals in the first, second and third priority groups
CECC reminds members of the public who have visited the quarantine hotel during the said period of time to practice self-health monitoring for 14 days starting from the date of exposure. If suspected symptoms develop, members of the public must put on a mask and voluntarily inform the physician of contact history, travel history, occupational exposure, and whether anyone else has similar symptoms; members of the public may not take public transportation when seeking medical attention.
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