- The Taiwan Lantern Festival, an annual celebration to mark the end of the upcoming Chinese New Year in mid-February, will be cancelled this year because of COVID-19, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said, citing the recent local infection cases.
- “This is a tough decision, but pandemic-prevention is our top priority,” Transportation Minister Lin Chia-lung told reporters.
- The festival, which features oversized lanterns and fireworks displays, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year and has become a major selling point for the government to attract tourists from overseas.
- All four cases are related to the Taoyuan hospital outbreak and Taiwan’s health ministry is planning to move more than 200 patients out of the hospital into isolation wards.
- “We strongly recommend that large-scale events be cancelled,” said Health Minister Chen Shih-chung. “The situation is under our control at the moment because the cases can be clearly traced.”
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