TAIPEI — Taiwan began moving more than 400 people to a centralized quarantine facility on Thursday from an airport hotel after a rare domestic outbreak of COVID-19, and will sterilize the entire hotel building.
Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control because of early and effective prevention, including largely closing its borders. Most cases have been imported from abroad, though the island has reported sporadic domestic infections in recent months.
Since last week it has reported COVID-19 infections in nine freighter pilots from Taiwan’s largest carrier, China Airlines Ltd, some of whom had been staying at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel, now being…
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