TAIPEI — All foreign workers at a plant of major Taiwanese chip packager King Yuan Electronics in Taiwan’s northern city of Miaoli will be quarantined as health workers try to stop an outbreak of COVID-19 there, the government said on Sunday.
While cases had been concentrated in Taipei and neighbouring New Taipei, health authorities are now trying to stop an outbreak at two chip packagers in Miaoli, King Yuan and Greatek Electronics, as well as ethernet switch maker Accton Technology Corp.
The government said the quarantine would only apply to King Yuan, where most of the Miaoli infections have happened.
King Yuan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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