No heat-up of COVID-19 in Greater Taipei: CECC


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Email People line up at a COVID-19 testing site in Taipei's Wanhua District, an epicenter of the recent outbreak. CNA photo May 19, 2021 Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Thursday that based on the decline in test positivity rate for COVID-19 cases in Greater Taipei, there is no indication the outbreak is worsening. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who also heads the CECC, said Taipei saw a test positivity rate of 4.6 percent on Wednesday, compared with 10-11 percent in the first few days after the rapid screening service started on May 14. As the number of people taking...