Taiwan has no immediate plans to raise COVID-19 alert: health minister


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CORONAVIRUS/Taiwan has no immediate plans to raise COVID-19 alert: health minister Taipei, Sept. 8 (CNA) The Taiwan government does not plan to elevate the nationwide Level 2 COVID-19 alert at this time, despite a growing cluster of domestic infections in New Taipei, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Wednesday. The goal right now is to control the spread of the disease, Chen said at a press briefing of the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), which he heads. On Wednesday, the CECC reported seven new COVID-19 cases in the cluster linked to a preschool in New Taipei's Banqiao District, which brought...