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Bill proposes paid family care leave for all

DISPARITY:Wan Mei-ling said the current situation in which civil servants are entitled to pay but workers are not is unfair, calling it a ‘one country, two systems’ model
A bill has been proposed that would allow workers to take paid leave for five days when they have to take care of their family members, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wan Mei-ling (萬美玲) said on Saturday.

Wan proposed an amendment to the Act of Gender Equality in Employment (性別工作平等法) that would entitle employees not working for the government to the same treatment as civil servants.

According to Article 20 of the act, employees can request family care leave to take personal care of family members who need inoculations or have become seriously ill, or to handle other major events.

The act also stipulates that the number of family care leave days may not exceed seven days in one year, while wages during family care leave are calculated based on the related statutes and administrative regulations governing leave for personal reasons.

Civil servants are entitled to pay for five days of the seven-day leave period, but workers not employed by the government do not receive compensation for family care leave, Wan said.

The disparity is a “one country, two systems” mechanism that is not fair to workers, she said.

Disputes arose when the Central Epidemic Command Center, which is leading the country in the battle against COVID-19, announced on Feb. 2 that schools would reopen two weeks later than planned, on Tuesday last week.

Workers who had to take care of their children under the age of 12 largely received no pay for the two weeks, but those working for the government were paid for five days.

Only some major firms such as contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co paid their employees half of their salaries for their family care leave.

Wan cited a survey conducted by the Child Welfare League Foundation in 2014, which found that 63 percent of parents polled said that seven days of family care leave was not enough.

Therefore, Wan said that she has also proposed that the act be amended to extend family care leave to 10 days.

KMT lawmakers Lee De-wei (李德維) and Wen Yu-hsia (溫玉霞) have proposed a separate amendment to the act that would give workers three days of paid leave for family care leave.

The amendment by Lee and Wen also broadens the requirements for family care leave to family members who suffer dementia and who cannot take care of themselves due to injuries or illness.

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US, Taliban sign deal to end war in Afghanistan

‘BEST OPPORTUNITY’:The complete pullout of US troops would depend on the Taliban keeping their promise to renounce terrorism and al-Qaeda
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media after a signing ceremony of the US-Taliban peace agreement in Doha on Saturday.Photo: EPA-EFE
Acknowledging a military stalemate after nearly two decades of conflict, the US on Saturday signed a peace agreement with the Taliban that is aimed at ending the US’ longest war and bringing US troops home from Afghanistan more than 18 years after they invaded in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The historic deal, signed by chief negotiators from the two sides and witnessed by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, could see the withdrawal of all US and allied forces in the next 14 months and allow US President Donald Trump to keep a key campaign pledge to extract the US from “endless wars.”

However, it could also easily unravel, particularly if the Taliban fail to meet their commitments.

At the White House, Trump told reporters that the US deserves credit for having helped Afghanistan take a step toward peace.

He spoke cautiously of the deal’s prospects for success and warned the Taliban against violating its commitments.

“We think we’ll be successful in the end,” he said, referring to all-Afghan peace talks and a final US exit.

He said he will be “meeting personally with Taliban leaders in the not-too-distant future,” and described the group as “tired of war.”

He did not say where or why he plans to meet with Taliban leaders.

He said he thinks they are serious about the deal they signed, but warned that if it fails, the US could restart combat.

“If bad things happen, we’ll go back” in with military firepower, Trump said.

Pompeo was also cautious.

“Today, we are realistic. We are seizing the best opportunity for peace in a generation,” Pompeo said in the Qatari capital, Doha. “Today, we are restrained. We recognize that America shouldn’t fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help Afghans forge peace.”

Under the agreement, the US would draw its forces down to 8,600 from 13,000 in the next three to four months, with the remaining US forces withdrawing in 14 months.

The complete pullout would depend on the Taliban meeting their commitments to prevent terrorism, including specific obligations to renounce al-Qaeda and prevent that group or others from using Afghan soil to plot attacks on the US or its allies.

The deal sets the stage for intra-Afghan peace talks to begin next week, with the aim of negotiating a permanent ceasefire and a power-sharing agreement between rival Afghan groups.

It is perhaps the most complicated and difficult phase of the plan.

However, it does not tie the US’ withdrawal to any specific outcome from the all-Afghan talks, US officials said.

Pompeo said that “the chapter of American history on the Taliban is written in blood,” adding that while the road ahead would be difficult, the deal represented “the best opportunity for peace in a generation.”

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Virus Outbreak: CECC confirms 40th coronavirus case

CAUTION:A woman tested positive in her third examination, though with a low viral load, the center said as it raised its alert level for Iran due to a high number of deaths
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), speaks at a CECC news conference in Taipei yesterday.Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced a new confirmed case of COVID-19 infection in Taiwan and raised its travel advisory for Iran to a level 3 “warning,” urging people to avoid unnecessary travel due to the increased risk of infection there.

Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said the nation’s 40th confirmed case is a woman in her 70s who lives in northern Taiwan and was a passenger on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.

She tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 15, when the ship was under a 14-day quarantine in Yokohama, Japan. She was hospitalized the next day and discharged after two negative test results on Feb. 25 and returned to Taiwan the next day.

She wore a mask throughout the flight home and was placed in a seat with two empty rows in front of and behind her, Chen said.

She was immediately taken to a hospital for testing after arriving in Taiwan and tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, he added.

The woman’s first test was negative. She fell between negative and positive territory in the second test and tested positive in the third test, but with a low viral load, CECC advisory specialist panel convener Chang Shan-chwen (張上淳) said.

Viral load can sometimes be very low or even undetectable toward the end of treatment, so while two consecutive negative results is the internationally accepted sign for recovery, in Taiwan, patients are discharged only after three negative results, Chang said.

For the sake of caution, the practice would continue as long as the nation has sufficient testing capacity, but it might change according to the epidemic situation, Chen said.

The crisis surrounding a cluster infection in a hospital connected to the 34th case, a woman in her 50s, has not been lifted, but the center will likely prevent the virus spreading further, he said.

Seventy-nine medical personnel who had come into close contact with the clustered cases underwent testing, returning three positive results — who became the nation’s 37th to 39th cases, announced on Saturday — and 76 negative results, Chen said.

Of the 23 relatives of the clustered cases, one tested negative and the others are being tested, and 115 of 209 other people who had come into close contact with the clustered cases tested negative, while the remaining four are waiting to be tested, he said.

The CECC has raised its travel notice for Iran in light of a high number of confirmed cases and a relatively high number of deaths there, Chen said.

The number of confirmed cases in Iran had risen to 593, including 43 deaths, as of yesterday, which is the highest number of deaths outside of China, the center said, adding that local infection is highly possible in the country.

Starting today, people who have visited Iran in the 14 days prior to arriving in Taiwan, except transit passengers, would be placed under a 14-day mandatory home quarantine, it said.

Japanese authorities have over the past few days implemented various prevention measures and the epidemic situation there is relatively stable, but disease screening at points of entry to Taiwan should still be bolstered, as people frequently travel between the two countries, Chen said.

The center has instructed the doctors at airport quarantine stations to boost screening for symptoms among people arriving from Japan and ask those with symptoms to undergo COVID-19 testing at a hospital, he said.


title: Virus outbreak: Restaurant apologizes over refused order

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By Chang Ching-ya and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A branch of the Jengjong Spareribs restaurant is pictured in Taichung yesterday.Photo: Chang Ching-ya, Taipei Times
Jengjong Spareribs (正忠排骨飯) restaurant chain yesterday apologized to frontline medical professionals and pledged to donate NT$1 million (US$32,971) to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) after one of its outlets in Taichung was criticized for refusing to deliver to a local hospital.

A Taichung Veterans General Hospital nurse posted on Facebook that a delivery order to the hospital had been turned down by the restaurant’s Fuko branch, adding: “For the first time, I felt my profession was discriminated against.”

The company wanted to apologize to the nation’s medical professional working on the front line, Jengjong Spareribs brand manager Wang Jui-hsiang (王睿翔) said, adding that the branch’s decision had not been authorized by the company’s headquarters.

Several of the chain’s outlets are located in hospital food courts and are operating normally, and its headquarters has never told any branch to suspend delivery services to hospitals amid COVID-19 concerns, Wang said in the statement.

The director of the Fuko branch has been demoted for misconduct, the statement said.

“During the disease-prevention period, Jengjong Spareribs vows to prioritize orders coming from medical staff or hospitals,” it said.

Taichung Veterans General Hospital has also offered its thanks to people who have showed support and encouragement to the medical staff during this time.

Four other Taichung hospitals yesterday said they have not encountered a similar problem.

No staff hve had a food delivery canceled, Kuang Tien General Hospital said.

Tung’s Taichung Metroharbor Hospital said some of its patients had prepared masks for doctors as a show of goodwill.

Feng Yuan Hospital said it received 24 bowls of seafood porridge from a nearby restaurant, and 50 hamburgers from another, for free, adding that food operators in the neighborhood are all kind-hearted.

Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital said that deliveries of food orders have been proceeding normally, although it now requires that all deliveries be dropped off at a single location, instead of being sent to the departments or offices that placed the order.

Additional reporting by Ou Su-mei

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US Federal Reserve takes on diversity — one Fed bank board member at a time

Sixty-four of the 108 directors on the boards are now either women or non-white men,
but progress at the very top of the agency is still hard to spot
By Ann Saphir and Lindsay Dunsmuir / Reuters, SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON
The US Federal Reserve, long criticized for being too white and male, crossed a substantial milestone last year: For the first time in its 107-year history, white men held fewer than half of board seats at the Fed’s 12 regional outposts.

The shift, reinforced in January with a fresh round of appointments, has drawn little notice outside the Fed itself, but it is a window into how the US central bank is setting the table for change among top policymakers, where progress toward diversity has been slow.

The push has been driven by the Fed’s own acknowledgement that its leaders do not look like the nation for which they set monetary policy, and by political pressure to fix that, according to interviews with several current and former Fed policymakers.

It also reflects, they said, the conviction that bringing a broader slice of the US into the Fed’s boardrooms will result in a keener grasp of economic conditions and better policy decisions.

Board members are not policymakers themselves, but they share their perspectives on the economy in regular meetings with each of the 12 bank presidents who, along with five Fed policymakers in Washington, set the nation’s interest rates.

They matter because the boards, or more precisely the two-thirds of directors who are not bankers, hire Fed bank presidents.

Among this particularly influential boardroom subset, white men are now outnumbered by women and minorities by more than two to one, a Reuters analysis shows.

“That’s an area where we could make that commitment to having more women, more minorities very visibly effective in a short period of time,” Fed Governor Lael Brainard said. “There’s been a real sea change.”

As of Jan. 1, 64 of the 108 directors at all 12 Federal Reserve banks were women, or men of African-American, Hispanic, Asian or Native American descent. In 2015, 70 of the 108 were white men.

Six of each nine-member board are supposed to represent the public and are often local leaders in business, education or labor, with three appointed by the Fed’s Washington-based Board of Governors and three by local bankers.

Among the remaining three directors, who represent banks and are by law barred from taking part in choosing Fed presidents, the majority remains white and male, and none are non-white women.

Even so, the Fed’s boards overall are more diverse than corporate America. Women constitute 26 percent of directors at S&P 500 Index companies, according to a report in May last year from Spencer Stuart.

At the top 200 companies, minorities accounted for 19 percent of directors. Boards at big US banks are 30 percent female and 20 percent minority, a report published last month by US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Democrats showed.

On the Fed’s boards, 41 percent are women, and 29 percent are minorities, the Reuters review found.

Fed banks have long sought directors from a range of industries and places, but in 2011, an audit by the US Government Accountability Office found “limited” representation of women and minorities on Fed bank boards.

Among its recommendations was that the Fed Board direct the banks to pick directors who are not necessarily chief executive officers.

“Once you realize that people at high levels in an organization can be perfectly good board members for you, that does increase the pool of candidates,” said Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, whose bank has made some of the biggest strides in diversity in the past five years.

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title: Bayern, Hoffenheim stop competing after insult

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Bayern Munich and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim players mill about during their Bundesliga match in Sinsheim, Germany, on Saturday.Photo: EPA-EFE
Bayern Munich and TSG 1899 Hoffenheim players spent the final 15 minutes of their Bundesliga game on Saturday farcically playing the ball among themselves — and even exchanging passes with the opposition — as they wound down the clock after Hoffenheim’s billionaire backer was insulted by away fans.

Bayern were leading 6-0, but the goal-fest was over as both sides agreed not to compete in the teeming rain after a banner calling Dietmar Hopp a “son of a whore” was displayed, among others, in the Bayern block of fans.

Bayern players and coaching staff reacted with fury to the insults targeting Hopp from their own fans, and they remonstrated angrily with the traveling supporters on both occasions that referee Christian Dingert suspended play.

They refused to play competitively in protest against the supporters’ actions once the game resumed for the second time.

“It was the players’ idea after consulting with the referee,” said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who stood with Hopp by the side of the field as both teams’ players casually swapped passes with each other.

The players were applauded by the home fans.

“I am deeply ashamed of these troublemakers,” Rummenigge said of the Bayern fans. “The moment has come today at the latest when the whole Bundesliga has to deal with them. We all have to stand together.”

“We have closed our eyes to what happens in the stands for too long,” Rummenigge said. “This is the hateful face of football.”

Earlier, while they were still playing competitively, Joshua Zirkzee scored on his first start for Bayern and Philippe Coutinho added two to help the side open a four-point lead at the top of the table.

The visitors dominated from the start, racing to an early lead through Serge Gnabry and then Joshua Kimmich in the first seven minutes.

Zirkzee had been given his chance due to Robert Lewandowski’s injury and duly took it by scoring Bayern’s third goal in the 15th minute. Bayern’s top scorer Lewandowski is out for about four weeks with a fracture below his left knee.

Coutinho scored Bayern’s fourth with a deflected shot in the 33rd minute.

Coutinho grabbed his second goal just after the second half started with a volley from Thomas Muller’s cross and the Brazilian was involved again as he played in Corentin Tolisso to set up Leon Goretzka in the 62nd minute.

However, the game was interrupted after fans in the Bayern block displayed the banners with crude insults for Hopp — as some Borussia Moenchengladbach fans had done the weekend before in reaction to Borussia Dortmund fans being sanctioned by the German soccer federation for also displaying similar banners.

Hopp, cofounder of the SAP software giant, has long been unpopular among rival fans for financing Hoffenheim’s rise from obscurity to the Bundesliga, and for his opposition to the league’s 50+1 rule, which protects clubs from takeovers by a majority stakeholder. Hopp was granted an exception in 2015 due to his longstanding support of the club.

Bayern’s players remonstrated with the supporters before Dingert allowed the game to continue. Rummenigge looked embarrassed and put his arm around the shaken-looking Hopp.

Dingert suspended play a second time a short time later as another insulting banner was displayed. The whole Bayern team raced over to remonstrate with the fans.

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Healthcare, biotech performance uneven last week

EBB AND FLOW:Mask maker stocks jumped last week, with Universal shares rising 26.38 percent, while healthcare device makers slipped, with TaiDoc losing 2.52 percent
Healthcare and biotech stocks posted mixed performances during last week’s market rout amid the COVID-19 outbreak, while analysts said that investors should focus on companies with stable fundamentals once the outbreak subsides.

Stocks for mask makers rose steeply, with shares of KNH Enterprise Co Ltd (康那香) and Universal Inc (恆大) increasing 10.78 percent and 26.38 percent respectively this week, while shares of GeneReach Biotechnology Corp (瑞基海洋), a maker of in vitro diagnostic devices and reagents, moved up 28.55 percent.

Medical disinfectants supplier Panion & BF Biotech Inc (寶齡富錦) shares also increased 2.37 percent last week.

Even though makers of healthcare devices such as forehead thermometers TaiDoc Technology Corp (泰博科技) and Avita Corp (豪展醫療) fell 2.52 percent and 1.2 percent respectively, both fared better than the broader market indices.

Last week, the TAIEX on the main board declined 3.37 percent from the previous week and the Taipei Exchange on the over-the-counter board fell 3.96 percent in the week.

As new cases of COVID-19 emerge, healthcare experts have said that people should take additional precautions and maintain personal hygiene, which, with the continuing correction in the local equity market, poses a buying opportunity in individual stocks related to disease prevention, detection and personal protection, Yuanta Securities Investment Consulting Co (元大投顧) said in a note last week.

Favorable virus effects have yet to materialize in biotech stocks, although investors were often attracted by the potential for a research breakthrough. Biotech stocks suffered a 2.93 percent decline on average last week, stock exchange data showed.

“There are three major drug candidates under clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19, namely favipiravir (an approved anti-flu drug), chloroquine phosphate (an approved antimalarial drug), and remdesivir (a proposed drug for treating Ebola),” Yuanta analyst Jane Jiang (蔣欣穎) said in the note.

“Based on previous experience, the time to market for a vaccine for an epidemic could be half a year, at least,” she said.

However, Adimmune Corp (國光生技) and Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp (高端疫苗) saw weekly gains in shares, rising 6.68 percent and 17.78 percent respectively.

Adimmune is cooperating with the National Health Research Institutes and Medigen Vaccine is working with the US National Institutes of Health in developing a COVID-19 vaccine.

Both use recombinant protein technology, which should accelerate their vaccine development by one month, Jiang said.

Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), the basic inputs for drugs, are among the goods, such as masks, facing a shortage, due to disruptions in the global pharmaceutical supply chain.

“China is a big supplier of APIs including antibiotics, analgesics and anti-HIV drugs, which may face a supply gap if the outbreak continues,” Jiang said.

Taiwanese API manufacturers, including Savior Lifetec Corp (展旺生技), Yung Zip Chemical Industrial Co Ltd (永日化學), Chunghwa Chemical Synthesis & Biotech Co Ltd (中化合成生技) and Formosa Laboratories Inc (台耀化學), might see an increase in API orders, she said.

Last week, Yung Zip stocks edged up 0.87 percent and Chunghwa Chemical’s rose 4.71 percent, but Savior Lifetec shares fell 6.28 percent and Formosa Laboratories’ declined 4.57 percent.

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Criminal Investigation Bureau Fourth Investigation Corps officer Wang Chih-cheng points to a monitor showing the message “Do not forward fake news” during a news conference at the bureau’s headquarters in Taipei on Friday.Photo: CNA
Probes into 18 complaints of rumormongering and misinformation relating to the nation’s COVID-19 cases found that 14 emanated from China, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said yesterday.

The 18 complaints from the public were received on Saturday, and many of the claims were sophisticated, featuring forged government statements, screen grabs of television news, images, edited pictures and the use of media outlets’ published reporting, said CIB officer Lee Chi-hsun (李奇勳), head of the Seventh Investigation Corps unit for cybersecurity and Internet crimes.

Chinese cyberwarfare has hit new levels, with proven fake news such as “President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) rushed to hospital for treatment after coming down with Wuhan virus,” “Taiwan Province’s virus outbreak is out of control, Taiwan’s armed forces has Taipei under military control and Tsai’s government is burning virus-infected people on the street,” the bureau said.

A newly registered YouTube channel carrying vice president-elect William Lai’s (賴清德) name in Chinese featured videos and messages about the virus situation that are not accurate, it said.

One message from a Chinese account said former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) died after contracting the Wuhan virus, while an earlier case centered on the dissemination of images purportedly showing a presidential decree ordering the National Security Bureau to take control of the nation’s Internet and telecommunication links due to the current situation, the bureau said.

To people who are not familiar with presidential decrees, the image at first glance looked real, prompting the Presidential Office to issue a statement urging the public “to be on high alert for absurd and sensationalized online messages, and these should not be believed or circulated on social media.”

The new cases “showed a well-organized approach, with new tools and more sophistication for coordinated attacks. In generating fake news and misinformation on specific targets, these suggested they were not the work of Chinese trolls or individual netizens, but indicated a deployment of China’s cyberarmy units,” Lee Chi-hsun said.

Identifying China as the origin of many of the faked news items and messages was done by checking the IP locations, the use of simplified characters, and the use of phrases and words that are not commonly used in Taiwan, he said.

Many of the senders pretended to be Taiwanese when they circulated the rumors and fake news stories, he said.

The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau and the CIB have also questioned a number of Taiwanese about allegedly disseminating fake news and these people could face charges, the CIB said.

Conviction on such charges could bring a prison term of up to three years, it said.

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title: Virus outbreak: CIB probing 18 cases of fake news


title: Malaysia swears in new publicity-shy prime minister

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Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin waves to reporters after his inauguration ceremony outside the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.Photo: EPA-EFE
Long overshadowed by colorful contemporaries, the man who yesterday emerged from a week of turmoil as Malaysia’s new prime minister is a publicity-shy picture of conservatism.

When Muhyiddin Yassin, 72, heard news on Saturday that the king had picked him over 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, the outspoken leader who has dominated Malaysian politics for decades, he immediately dropped to the carpet in tears to give thanks to Allah.

“He is a very serious, boring man,” said one person who has worked with him for years and did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

“Probably that is what Malaysia needs now rather than a camera-hunting, publicity-stunt type of man,” the person said.

A conservative Muslim from the majority Malay community, Muhyiddin staked his claim to the premiership when Mahathir failed to rally support for a unity government after his shock resignation as prime minister on Monday last week.

Muhyiddin is a Malay nationalist and he drew support from the former ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and Islamist party PAS, who were defeated in 2018 by a multi-ethnic coalition under Mahathir that promised to fight corruption.

“I am a Malay first, I want to say that, but being Malay does not mean that you are not Malaysian,” Muhyiddin said in 2010.

Such sentiment struck a chord at a time of disaffection within the Malay majority over a perceived loss of privileges under Mahathir’s government.

“Like a good striker he saw the opening he did not expect, and took advantage to score,” Malaysian lawyer Zaid Ibrahim said about the low-profile Muhyiddin, who was minister of home affairs under Mahathir.

Mahathir and Muhyiddin were from the same Bersatu party and the former prime minister said that he felt betrayed by a man he accused of plotting with UMNO to bring it back, despite the corruption charges now facing some of its top officials.

“Muhyiddin is willing to accept anything. He says politics is more important than principles,” Mahathir said, vowing to call for a session of parliament to test whether Muhyiddin had a majority.

Muhyiddin did not immediately respond to the accusations.

After Muhyiddin was sworn in, his office said that he would not be speaking to media that day.

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Virus Outbreak: Indonesia defends virus policies

CONCERNS:The director of Indonesia’s frontline hospital asked why they would hide an outbreak, but four infections were confirmed in travelers who had spent time there
Indonesia has the resources to cope with a coronavirus outbreak, the director of its leading infectious diseases hospital said, defending detection procedures in the Southeast Asian nation of more than 260 million, where no cases have been reported.

The world’s fourth most populous nation has only tested 141 suspected cases sparking concern among some medical professionals of a lack of vigilance and a risk of undetected cases.

Neighboring Malaysia has reportedly run about 1,000 tests and Britain more than 10,000.

“We can’t doubt our skills and the facts we gather,” said Muhammad Syahril, director of the Sulianti Saroso hospital in Jakarta, the capital, when asked why Indonesia had detected no cases.

“If we don’t have cases, we don’t have cases,” he said in an interview at the hospital on Friday. “Why would we cover it up?”

The virus has infected more than 85,000 people globally and killed nearly 2,800, the majority in China, spreading to more than 50 countries.

Sulianti Saroso is Indonesia’s main hospital for handling suspected virus cases, among 135 designated for the task.

Indonesia’s efforts have included screening the temperatures of arrivals at airports and advising that any who later becomes unwell should contact health authorities.

The hospital offers 11 isolation rooms for patients with symptoms such as pneumonia, Syahril said, adding that three people were being treated, while 21 were in isolation before testing negative.

The hospital was ready to tackle any outbreak, armed with experience gained in handling disease such as the SARS outbreak, he said.

An Indonesian Ministry of Health official previously told reporters that some hospitals, particularly in eastern Indonesia, had smaller capacity to handle virus cases, but even in Jakarta not all best practices appear to be followed and a recent visit to another hospital revealed some nurses without masks, despite attending to a patient with fever.

Fueling concern about Indonesia’s vulnerability, four infections were confirmed in travelers who had spent time there, including a Japanese national living in Malaysia and one returning to New Zealand from Iran via the resort island of Bali.

Indonesian physician Shela Putri Sundawa worries that screening could miss potential carriers without symptoms.

“When people have travel or contact history, but they only have issues with coughing or minor fever, they’ll just be monitored,” she said, calling for tighter surveillance.

Tests were run when doctors determined that symptoms pointed “to that direction,” Indonesian Minister of Health Terawan Agus Putranto said last week.

“Imagine if everybody who had a cough or flu was checked, then millions would be checked,” he said, adding that it was “a blessing from the Almighty” that no cases had been found.

Tests are done at a Jakarta laboratory run by the health ministry, but Sundawa said that samples from outside the capital could take too long to arrive for optimal results.

Tests should also be cross checked with overseas laboratories accredited by the WHO to dispel quality concerns, said Arsul Sani, the vice chairman of the upper house of parliament.

The health ministry declined to comment but said that its laboratory was accredited by the WHO.

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Virus Outbreak: Italy virus cases top 1,100 as France bans gatherings

RESPONSE:The number of deaths in Italy rose by eight to 29, while France banned large gatherings and urged people not to greet each other with kisses or handshakes
Italian authorities on Saturday said that the country has more than 1,100 COVID-19 cases and that 29 people infected with the virus have died.

The total number of infected has reached 1,128, civil protection agency chief Angelo Borrelli told a news conference.

Officials also reported eight more deaths in the previous 24 hours, bring the total to 29.

Fifty-two percent of the people who tested positive for the virus are being isolated in their homes and not hospitalized, Borrelli said.

Health authorities said they suspect that the new cases confirmed since Friday involved infections acquired before Italy shut down 11 towns in the country’s north on Feb. 21.

It would take at least two weeks — the period of incubation — for the effect of the containment measures to show up in fewer new cases, they said.

Meanwhile, France has banned all indoor public gatherings of more than 5,000 people to slow its snowballing spread of coronavirus cases and recommending that people no longer greet each other with kisses.

The number of French cases almost doubled, to 100, on Saturday.

Of those, 86 are hospitalized, two have died and 12 have recovered, said the head of the French national health service, Jerome Salomon.

The cancelation of large gatherings in confined spaces was announced by French Minister of Health Olivier Veran after special government meetings that focused on responses to the outbreak.

Having previously recommended that people avoid shaking hands, the minister said they should also cut back on la bise, the custom in France and elsewhere in Europe of giving greetings with kisses, or air kisses, on the cheeks.

The tightened restrictions on public gatherings had an immediate effect. A major four-day trade show in Cannes for property investors was postponed from this month to June.

A half-marathon that was scheduled for yesterday in Paris was also canceled, as was a carnival in the Alpine town of Annecy, Veran said.

Other outdoor events and gatherings that might lead to a mixing of people from infected areas could also be canceled, he said.

Public gatherings are being banned completely in the Oise region north of Paris that has seen a cluster of cases and in a town in the foothills of the Alps that has also seen infections, Veran said.

The outbreak also affected the Paris fashion industry and the French capital’s Catholic churches.

French designer Agnes b. announced the cancelation of her Paris Fashion Week show, originally scheduled for today, “in view of the current international health context.”

The archbishop of Paris asked priests to change the way they administer communion to prevent spread of the virus.

Bishop Michel Aupetit instructed that priests should no longer put the sacramental bread in the mouths of the faithful and instead place it in their hands.

He also asked worshipers not to drink wine directly from a shared chalice or shake hands at Mass and requested to have church fonts emptied of holy water.

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Employees of Grishko produce pointe shoes in the company’s Moscow workshop on Tuesday last week.Photo: AFP
Sergei Murza runs his fingers over the pink satin of a pointe shoe he has just finished making. Then he gives it the final test: The ballet slipper balances perfectly on its tip.

Murza produces the shoes in the Moscow workshop of Grishko, a company born in the chaos of the collapse of the Soviet Union and now one of the world’s top makers of ballet pointe shoes.

In a country better known for exporting oil and arms, Grishko is a rare success story for Russian artisanship, its shoes sold around the globe and gracing the stages of the world’s top ballet venues.

It is hardly surprising, founder Nikolay Grishko says, given the aura that surrounds Russia’s storied ballet tradition.

“It is in Russia that classical ballet has reached its highest level,” said the 71-year-old, who founded the company more than 30 years ago and continues to run it.

Grishko has diversified into clothing and other types of dance shoes, but the ballet line is the company’s heart and soul.

Nearly 80 percent of its production is for export, with the US — where the shoes sell under the brand name Nikolay — and Japan the top buyers.

Inspired by the liberalization of the Soviet Union under then-Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, Grishko set up the company in 1988.

A former diplomat posted in Laos and economics professor, he found inspiration close to home.

“My wife was a dancer... I already knew what pointes were,” he said in his office at the factory, looking dapper in a dark suit and black-rimmed glasses.

When he launched the business, Russia’s big theaters such as the Bolshoi had their own in-house workshops making pointes.

That tradition is now gone, but the expertise built up over centuries lives on in his company.

“I took the best of the tradition of Russian pointes, which have been made since the end of the 19th century. This tradition was passed on in the theater workshops, but practically disappeared after the fall of the Soviet Union” in 1991, Ukrainian-born Grishko said.

Today he employs more than 500 people at workshops in Moscow, the Czech Republic and Macedonia. In Russia, a pair of Grishko pointes sells for the equivalent of 30 euros (US$33), in western Europe about twice that.

The Moscow workshop is housed on the grounds of the historic Hammer & Sickle Factory, a Soviet-era institution that once housed a steel plant.

Grishko’s master shoemakers work in silence as they produce 32,000 to 37,000 pairs of pointes per month, using only natural materials.

Cats roam around the work tables as artisans cut cloth, make their own glue, assemble the shoes and dry them in ovens, before a meticulous check for quality.

Among them are about 70 people who are deaf or hard of hearing, said Irina Sobakina, the 53-year-old deputy head of production, praising “the higher sensitivity of their hands.”

In the sewing workshop, Olga Monakhova, who is 56 years old and has worked at the factory for 27 years, recalls orders from famous dancers such as the Bolshoi’s Anastasia Volochkova and Nikolay Tsiskaridze.

Across the capital in her studio, Moscow Ballet Company dancer Alexandra Kirshina completes a rehearsal on pointes made especially for her.

“We wear them constantly, so it’s important that they fit perfectly,” the 28-year-old soloist said. “I used to dance in plastic pointes and I had big problems with my feet.”

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title: For justice, truth must come out of hiding

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On Feb. 17, the Transitional Justice Commission released its report on the murders of the mother and twin daughters of democracy advocate Lin I-hsiung (林義雄) on Feb. 28, 1980.

The most important finding is that the commission has not ruled out the authoritarian government’s involvement in the murders. Forty years after the killings, evidence has disappeared — either purposefully or unintentionally destroyed. Surprisingly, some documents remain classified, which only underscores the need to review current laws.

An amendment to Article 80 of the Criminal Code last year scrapped the statute of limitations for offenses that result in death. However, Article 8-2 of the Enforcement Act of the Criminal Code (中華民國刑法施行法) stipulates that if “the period of limitation of prosecution of punishment was in progress but not completed before [the amendment takes effect], the post-amended provision shall apply.”

In other words, the amendment applies to cases that have not yet passed the period of limitation, but not cases that have already done so.

In the Lin family murder case, the period of limitation — 30 years — has passed. Even if the murderer is found and is still alive, they cannot be held criminally liable, because the period of limitation has passed.

Due to the impossibility of pursuing criminal liability, transitional justice must now restore the truth as far as possible for later generations to learn from.

However, laws and regulations protecting classified information further aggravate the situation.

Since August 2018, the commission has asked the National Security Bureau for files on 21 cases, including the Lin family murders, the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident and the 1981 death of Carnegie Mellon University associate professor Chen Wen-chen (陳文成).

The commission only gained access to the files on one case, the Lin family murders, and were denied access to the others because — in accordance with Article 12 of the Classified National Security Information Protection Act (國家機密保護法) — “any national security information involving intelligence activities, sources or access shall remain classified permanently.”

If declassifying the files would expose the national security intelligence network, does that mean that Taiwan’s intelligence agencies have made no technical progress or advances in how they gather intelligence?

It is also impossible to imagine what kind of national security information could be listed as “permanently classified.”

The Legislative Yuan last year enacted the Political Archives Act (政治檔案條例) specifically to clear obstacles created by the Classified National Security Information Protection Act.

Article 5 of the new law stipulates that “archives that have been classified for more than 30 years without any legal basis shall be declassified.”

This helps prevent illegal conduct from being covered up by classifying it.

Bewilderingly, the act also gives an exception for political archives when “there is a likelihood that their disclosure would seriously affect national security or foreign relations,” allowing them to remain classified for 50 years.

This vague and ambiguous wording means that key evidence in the Lin family murders is sealed up for another 10 years. Exceptions of this kind are not much different from the permanent classification stipulated in the Classified National Security Information Protection Act.

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people: 郝龍斌 周錫瑋 吳敦義 江啟臣

title: Hau likens KMT reform to ripping up weeds

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By Sherry Hsiao,
Shih Hsiao-kuang
and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) needs to be changed “from the root,” former Taipei mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) and former Taipei County commissioner Chou Hsi-wei (周錫瑋) agreed yesterday.

In a 40-minute live-stream hosted on Chou’s Facebook page ahead of the party’s chairperson election on Saturday, the two men, who were interviewed while working in a garden, were asked whether weeding was “like reform.”

“Yes,” Chou said. “Change must start from the root.”

“When you are weeding, you must remove the roots,” said Hau, who has served as KMT vice chairman three times and is up against KMT Legislator Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) in the election.

“The same goes for reform. You have to solve the fundamental problem,” he said.

The KMT’s “fundamental problem” is its culture, and while some parts of it should be kept, others need to be changed, he said.

In the past, there was only “one voice” in the KMT — that of the chairperson, but the chairperson “is not a saint,” he said. “The party chairperson also makes mistakes.”

With a collective leadership that considers multiple opinions, there would be “few chances of making mistakes,” he added.

In an online interview on Saturday, Hau proposed the KMT post a representative to China.

Asked about former KMT Central Committee member Vincent Hsu (徐正文), whose party membership was suspended over suspicions that he altered the passenger list for the first charter flight of Taiwanese evacuated from Wuhan, China, last month, Hau on Saturday said that “all KMT members must safeguard the party’s image.”

“Those who act without authority and damage the party’s image should be disciplined,” he said.

Although the KMT is an opposition party, it would do its part to help Taiwanese living or working in China, so it “should have a party representative there,” he said.

The KMT also needed to tackle its public image of being “old and pro-China,” and should prohibit members from benefitting personally when handling cross-strait affairs, he said.

On the question of the KMT’s position on unification and independence, Hau said that “defending the Republic of China, opposing Taiwanese independence and rejecting the ‘one country, two systems’” framework proposed by China are the party’s core ideals.

The KMT lags far behind the Democratic Progressive Party in its social media presence, which could seriously limit its development unless something is done, he said.

Only by embracing social media could the party better connect with the public, particularly younger people, Hau said.

Saturday’s by-election is to select a successor to former chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), who resigned following the KMT’s defeats in the elections on Jan. 11.

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Medical staff move inside the yellow control lines at a hospital for patients infected with COVID-19 in Daegu, South Korea, yesterday.Photo: AFP
South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday said that the government was waging “all-out responses” to contain COVID-19 as the country reported 376 new cases, taking the total to 3,526.

South Korea has the largest national total in the world outside China, after it saw a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the past few days.

Scores of events have been canceled or postponed over the contagion, while the country’s central bank has warned of negative growth in the first quarter for the world’s 12th-largest economy, saying that the epidemic would hit consumption and exports.

“The government is now waging all-out responses after raising the crisis alert to the highest level,” Moon said at an Independence Movement Day ceremony, scaled down due to the outbreak.

“We will be able to overcome the COVID-19 outbreak and revive our shrunken economy,” he added.

Samsung Electronics on Saturday suspended operations at its domestic smartphone plant in Gumi — 200km southeast of Seoul — for the second time in a week, after a third employee tested positive for the virus.

Hyundai Motor also stopped operations at one of its Ulsan plants after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.

Concerts by K-pop superstars BTS and the World Team Table Tennis Championships were among canceled events, while sports leagues have modified their seasons to help contain the virus.

K-pop star Chungha was placed in self-quarantine when a member of her staff tested positive after visiting Italy last month, Yonhap news agency reported. The singer tested negative.

Nearly 90 percent of the cases were in Daegu and neighboring North Gyeongsang Province, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement.

South Korea’s death toll remains at 17.

South Korea has an advanced health system and a free media, factors observers say improve the reliability of its statistics, with the numbers expected to rise as it checks more than 260,000 people associated with the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.

A 61-year-old female member developed a fever on Feb. 10, but attended at least four church services in Daegu — the country’s fourth-largest city with a population of 2.5 million — before being diagnosed.

About 60 percent of the cases were linked to the church, the KCDC said.

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Virus Outbreak: Iran says ‘tens of thousands’ might be tested

Iran is preparing for the possibility of “tens of thousands” of people getting tested for COVID-19 as the number of confirmed cases spiked again on Saturday, an official said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

The virus has killed 43 people out of 593 confirmed cases in Iran, Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said.

He disputed a report by the BBC’s Persian service citing anonymous medical officials in Iran putting the death toll at over four times as much.

Yet the number of known cases versus deaths would put the virus’ death rate in Iran at more than 7 percent, much higher than other countries. That has worried experts at the WHO and elsewhere that Iran might be underreporting the number of cases now affecting it.

Yet even as Iran sends spray trucks and fumigators into the streets, officials are still trying to downplay the virus’ reach.

“During these 10 days that we are talking about the coronavirus in the country, more than 480 people of our country has been killed in traffic accidents, but no one noticed them,” Jahanpour said.

The virus has infected more than 85,000 people and caused more than 2,900 deaths since emerging in China. Iran, with 43 people dead, has the world’s highest death toll outside of China.

Of the 730 confirmed cases scattered across the Middle East, the majority trace back to Iran.

Saturday’s new toll of 593 confirmed cases represents a jump of 205 cases — a 52 percent increase from the 388 reported the day before.

Jahanpour has said that large increases in the number of confirmed cases would happen as Iran now has 15 laboratories testing for the virus.

Late on Friday night, a BBC Persian report citing sources within Iran’s medical community put the death toll at at least 210. State television in Saudi Arabia and associated media, as well as Iranian exile groups, seized on the figure amid their wider political disputes with Tehran.

However, Jahanpour said that the report was politically motivated.

It conflated other causes of deaths with the coronavirus and relied on sources without access to Iran’s coronavirus testing labs, he said.

“The queen’s media, BBC Persian, is worried about staying behind Saudi and Albanian networks in the ‘lie competition.’” he said.

Albania is home to the Iranian exile group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.

However, at the same news conference, Jahanpour said that “tens of thousands” might seek testing for the coronavirus.

He also encouraged people to continue to avoid mass gatherings — even funerals for those who died of the virus.

Authorities later banned the public from visiting patients at hospitals nationwide, state television reported.

“The safest place is our homes and our cities,” he said. “We have to reduce our visits, even attending to funerals, and of course those people who are mourning, will feel guilty if they find that their ceremony causes the disease to spread.”

However, concerns continue to grow, as online videos showed an angry crowd setting fire to the courtyard of a medical clinic overnight in the southern city of Bandar Abbas.

Semiofficial media reported that those gathered wrongly believed the clinic housed people sick with COVID-19.

Earlier on Saturday, Bahrain threatened legal prosecution against travelers who came from Iran and had not been tested for the virus, and also banned public gatherings for two weeks.

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British Labour Party lawmaker Rebecca Long-Bailey has said she would employ “ruthless” campaign tactics to lead the party to election victory against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his special adviser Dominic Cummings.

At a Labour leadership hustings in Brighton on Saturday, the shadow business secretary promised to “go toe to toe with the likes of Dominic Cummings.”

She said this would involve establishing a media rebuttal unit to fight back against “smears” and placing greater emphasis on digital campaigning.

Cummings was the architect of the Vote Leave campaign, whose success was attributed in part to its use of micro-targeted online and social media advertising.

Johnson also credited Cummings with coming up with the “Get Brexit Done” slogan used in the Conservatives’ election campaign last year in which they secured a landslide victory.

“We were nowhere near in this election campaign. They were targeting demographics — your hobbies, your income groups — and we were just putting out nice memes and videos, and that’s not good enough. We have got to be ruthless, forensic, and we have got to fight back,” Long-Bailey said.

Long-Bailey has published a list of reforms designed to flush out “vested interests” from UK politics and end the “gentleman’s club in Westminster,” accusing donors of attempting to influence government policy by giving large donations.

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title: Labour must be ruthless to win, lawmaker says


title: SPORTS BRIEFS

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SOCCER

Lazio take Serie A lead

Juventus lost their grip on first place in Serie A to SS Lazio on Saturday and the eight-time defending champions have to wait more than a week — possibly even longer — to try and get it back because five games scheduled for this weekend — including Juventus’ match against third-place Inter — were postponed in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. The fixtures were due to be played without fans, but the decision to call them off was made on Saturday by the league as part of “urgent measures for the containment and management” of the disease. However, with the coronavirus outbreak worst in northern Italy, Lazio were permitted to play their match against Bologna in Rome and won 2-0 with its fans in attendance. Elsewhere, SSC Napoli beat Torino 2-1.

SOCCER

Valencia end winless streak

Valencia ended their five-game winless streak by beating Real Betis Balompie 2-1 in La Liga on Saturday in the first match since the club canceled its players’ media availability because of COVID-19. Valencia on Friday prevented players and coaches from speaking in news conferences before or after games, because a journalist who covers the club was found to have the virus. Players also could not talk to reporters in mixed zones after the matches. Elsewhere, Sociedad Deportiva Eibar won 3-0 over Levante UD, CD Leganes drew 1-1 with Deportivo Alaves, while Granada and RC Celta de Vigo drew 0-0.

SOCCER

PSG maintain 13-point lead

Kylian Mbappe scored two goals and created another as Paris Saint-Germain kept their 13-point lead at the top of Ligue 1 intact with a 4-0 win over Dijon FCO on Saturday. In other games, Montpellier HSC beat RC Strasbourg Alsace 3-0, Metz beat Amiens 1-0, Angers beat Stade Brestios 29 1-0, Stade Rennais defeated Toulouse 2-0 and AS Monaco drew 1-1 with Stade de Reims.

TENNIS

Djokovic wins in Dubai

Novak Djokovic was scarcely troubled as he beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday to win the Dubai Championships for the fifth time. Djokovic dropped his serve once, but converted all three break points against the 21-year-old Greek to move 3-2 ahead in their career meetings. “I’m trying to embrace the moment and appreciate where I am,” Djokovic said. “This has been one of the best starts of all the seasons I had in my career. I feel great on the court. I’ve been playing great tennis on the hard courts. That is my most successful and preferred surface.”

GOLF

Kennedy wins NZ Open

Brad Kennedy carded a remarkable eight-under-par final-round 63 to come from behind to win the New Zealand Open by two strokes yesterday. Kennedy, who won the tournament in 2011, started the day two shots behind fellow Australian Lucas Herbert, but stormed to victory at the Millbrook Resort course in Queenstown, finishing on 21-under 264. “To do this again after nine years is just unbelievable,” Kennedy said. “I actually posted a number in my head last night, 21 was the number, and I didn’t think I’d reach it, but I just knew that this course was out there to be had.

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British musician undergoes brain surgery while playing violin

小提琴家邊動腦部手術邊拉琴 英國首例

Dagmar Turner, 53, plays violin while surgeons remove her brain tumor at King’s College Hospital in London, UK, on Jan. 31.
達格瑪‧透納（五十三歲），一月三十一日在英國倫敦國王學院附設醫院一邊接受腦瘤手術，一邊拉小提琴。Photo: Reuters
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Late last month, British violinist Dagmar Turner performed a wonderful piece of music while undergoing brain surgery, to ensure that the surgical procedure did not affect her ability to play the violin. Images of the event caused quite a sensation.

According to foreign media, Turner, 53, who plays violin for the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra in the UK and has been playing for more than 40 years, was diagnosed in 2013 as having brain cancer. Even though the initial surgery did manage to remove the tumor, the cancer reappeared in December last year.

Keyoumars Ashkan, the neurosurgeon who performed the procedure this time, was concerned that the surgery might affect the cranial nerves that enable Turner to control her hand movements. The two of them came up with the idea to allow Turner to play the violin during the surgery, and in this way the surgeons would be able to determine during the process whether the cranial nerves were working properly. Because of this, the doctors also needed to understand music, otherwise they couldn’t be certain whether the idea was working.

The four-hour procedure went off without a hitch, and during the surgery Turner performed the classic jazz piece Summertime by the US composer George Gershwin, as well as songs by Latin lothario Julio Iglesias.

Turner is now fully recovered and has been discharged from hospital. She is back performing on stage, and has become the UK’s first person to undergo brain surgery to remove a tumor in a waking state while also playing the violin.

(Translated by Paul Cooper, Taipei Times)

英國小提琴家透納上月底在醫院進行開顱手術的同時，以小提琴演奏出優美樂曲，為的是讓她的演奏能力不受開刀過程影響，畫面曝光後引發熱烈討論。

綜合外媒報導，現年五十三歲的透納，是英國懷特島交響樂團的小提琴手，拉琴經驗逾四十年，二○一三年被確診罹患腦癌，雖然一度開刀切除腫瘤，但去年十二月再次復發。

為透納動刀的神經外科醫生阿什坎擔心手術會影響透納控制手部動作的大腦神經，因此兩人想出一項方案，讓透納開刀時演奏小提琴，好讓醫師能在過程中判斷腦神經是否正常。因此，醫師還需要懂音樂才能確保做法有效。

四小時的手術相當順利，期間，透納演奏美國音樂家蓋希文的經典爵士樂作品《夏日時光》，以及西班牙歌手「拉丁情人」胡立歐的歌曲。

如今，透納已康復出院，並重返舞台參加演出，而她也成為英國首位在清醒狀態接受腫瘤摘除手術，還能拉小提琴的人。

(自由時報)

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People attend a rally held by former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont in Perpignan, France, on Saturday.Photo: EPA-EFE
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain over a failed 2017 independence bid, on Saturday exhorted tens of thousands of supporters to keep up the struggle at a giant rally in southern France near the Catalan border.

“We must prepare for the final combat, bypassing mistakes, doubts and weaknesses,” he told the crowd at the exhibition center of a city that many consider the capital of northern Catalonia.

Huge crowds thronged the venue bearing pictures of Puigdemont and waving separatist flags of an independent Catalonia.

Local authorities estimated the turnout at 100,000, while organizers put it at 150,000.

Organizers had booked 600 buses for the event.

It was the first time the former Catalan president had ventured so close to the Spanish frontier since he fled to Brussels to escape prosecution following the failed secession bid that sparked Spain’s worst political crisis in decades.

“We don’t know what will happen, but we know that if we maintain our positions the day will come when we can set foot on Catalan soil,” he said, to cries of “Our president!”

He also called for a “permanent mobilization” against “a monarchical regime that is a direct heir of Francoism,” referring to Spain’s long-time dictator General Franco who restored the Spanish monarchy.

“We will not stop ... we just have good days ahead of us,” Puigdemont said.

On Friday evening, he attended a rugby match in Perpignan and was received by Perpignan Mayor Jean-Marc Pujol.

Former French prime minister Manuel Valls, who made an unsuccessful bid to become mayor of Barcelona, Catalonia’s main city, denounced the official reception accorded to Puigdemont, calling him a “political leader who fled Spain” and was a wanted figure in his country.

In October last year, nine other separatist leaders who remained in Spain were sentenced to heavy jail terms for sedition, sparking weeks of angry protests in Catalonia, some of which turned violent.

Previously, Puigdemont had not risked traveling to France, where police and the courts work closely with Madrid.

However, that changed recently when he was granted immunity as a member of the European parliament.

“For me, it’s like being home,” Puigdemont told a local newspaper ahead of his visit.

The rally came at a sensitive time for Catalonia, where Puigdemont’s successor, Quim Torra, has announced early regional elections due to a clash between the two separatist parties that run the wealthy northeastern part of Spain.

One is Puigdemont’s Together for Catalonia (JxC), while the other is the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), which is headed by his former deputy Oriol Junqueras, who is serving 13 years in prison over the failed independence bid.

The tensions stem from strategic differences over how to advance the separatist agenda, with both parties struggling for leadership of the independence movement.

While ERC has pushed for dialogue with the government of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, JxC has favored a more confrontational approach.

Last week, Sanchez opened talks with Catalonia’s regional leaders to try to resolve the separatist conflict.

The negotiations were agreed as part of a deal with ERC in exchange for its support in getting Sanchez through a key investiture vote in January — a deal that was frowned upon by Puigdemont and his supporters.

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Italy’s China chill runs deeper than fears over the coronavirus

Almost a year after Italy broke with its US and European partners to sign up to China’s influence-extending Belt and Road Initiative, relations between Rome and Beijing risk deteriorating rather than getting closer.

The anticipated economic boost for Italy has yet to materialize, with its trade deficit with China widening further last year, and if Rome’s intention was to generate goodwill with Beijing, the government undermined that effort with its decision to halt flights to China over worries about the spread of the coronavirus.

As Italy endures its own deadly outbreak, Italian President Sergio Mattarella has made a show of reaching out to Chinese nationals in an attempt to quash anti-foreigner sentiment — earning praise from Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and easing some political tensions.

However, in economic terms, the Belt and Road memorandum’s vagueness and a change of government since Italy signed it have cooled the drive for more integration.

Investments have disappointed, while Italy has hardened its stance on China’s human rights record and on restricting Huawei Technologies Co access to 5G data networks.

“The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in quite a bit of discrimination against Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese residing in Europe — that’s not unique to Italy,” said Jan Weidenfeld, a researcher at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, Germany.

However, recent Italian criticism of China over Hong Kong and the real possibility of a partial ban on Huawei “were much more detrimental to the relationship from a Chinese perspective,” he said.

GERMAN WARNING

When Italy became the only G7 nation to sign a Belt and Road accord in March last year, it drew criticism for choosing Beijing at the expense of its Western allies. German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas said at the time that if some countries “think they can do clever deals with the Chinese, they will come down to earth with a bump.”

Italy’s government has learned that lesson the hard way. The country signed up to Belt and Road for “commercial reasons” and “economic advantages,” Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio said during a panel discussion at last month’s Munich Security Conference, acknowledging that adjustments needed to be made, such as ensuring that Chinese companies abide by European rules and standards.

A breakdown of Chinese investment as compiled by the RWR Belt and Road Monitor, which tracks Chinese investments globally, suggests Italy has failed to attract many concrete projects in the past year.

Jetion Solar (China) Co’s deal with Eni SpA to invest about US$2.2 billion and develop new solar projects was a rare exception.

Others were less eye-catching. They include a railway technology center in Turin to be built with Italy’s Blue Engineering, which is 80percent owned by China’s CRRC; an agreement between Italy’s UniCredit SpA and the Export-Import Bank of China; and a direct flight operated by Sichuan Airlines between Rome and Chengdu.

A Chinese plan to develop the port of Trieste has so far failed to happen.

More concrete progress was made in the area of mobile networks. In July last year, Huawei announced a US$3.1 billion investment plan over three years that aimed to create at least 1,000 jobs in Italy.

Five months later, Chinese provider ZTE Corp completed a joint “5G ready” network rollout across Italy with Italian operator Wind Tre.

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Liverpool loss ends ‘Invincibles’ chase

‘NO PANIC’:Defender Virgil van Dijk said that talk about records is ‘all media’ and they were just trying to win, which they have struggled to do for the past few weeks
Liverpool’s Divock Origi, left, and Kiko Femenia of Watford tumble during their Premier League match at Vicarage Road in Watford, England, on Saturday.Photo: AP
Arsenal’s class of 2003-2004 can breathe easy: Liverpool will not be joining them as Premier League “Invincibles.”

“Phew...” was the immediate reaction from Arsenal’s Twitter account after Liverpool collapsed to their first league loss of the season on Saturday, a 3-0 defeat against Watford — a team languishing in the relegation zone.

It marked the end of a 44-match undefeated streak and a record-tying 18-match winning run for Liverpool in the league.

Juergen Klopp’s team headed to Vicarage Road as the champions-in-waiting with a record 22-point lead and needing to get through 11 more matches to also become only the second to complete a full season unbeaten since the start of the Premier League in 1992. Preston also went through the 1888-1989 season undefeated.

Few could have foreseen the manner of the meltdown against Watford, who scored all of their goals in the second half through Ismaila Sarr (two) and Troy Deeney.

Thankfully for Liverpool fans desperate to see their team back on top of English soccer for the first time in 30 years, the loss is far from terminal.

Four wins from their final 10 games will see the Reds become champions for the 19th time.

“There is no reason for panic,” Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk said. “The [unbeaten] record, and the talk of the records, is all media. We just try to win every game ahead of us.”

However, the performance will be a concern, coming soon after their 1-0 loss to Atletico Madrid in their Champions League last-16, first-leg match.

Indeed, Liverpool’s players have been far below their usual high standards since returning from the Premier League’s first midseason break, having edged past last-place Norwich City 1-0 and coming from behind to beat another team fighting relegation, West Ham United, 3-2. The loss to Atletico was sandwiched between those league matches.

The absence of captain Jordan Henderson, who sustained a hamstring injury against Atletico, has been significant, while the defense looked ragged against Watford, with Dejan Lovren filling in at centerback for Joe Gomez.

“We want to strike back, we want to show what we’ve been doing the whole season,” Van Dijk said. “That’s the only way forward.”

Elsewhere, Marcos Alonso made it three goals in two games for Chelsea since returning to the lineup after a two-month absence when he scored twice — including an 85th-minute equalizer — in a 2-2 draw against AFC Bournemouth.

“Marcos Alonso has had a big week, but I don’t want my leftback top of the scoring charts,” Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said. “I want our attackers scoring goals and they haven’t.”

Alonso netted what proved to be the winning goal against Tottenham Hotspur a week earlier, only to get sent off in the 3-0 loss to Bayern Munich in the Champions League’s last 16 on Tuesday.

Crystal Palace won 1-0 against Brighton & Hove Albion, West Ham won 3-1 over Southampton, and Newcastle United and Burnley played out a scoreless draw.

The Aston Villa-Sheffield United match was postponed.

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Migrant workers in Taichung display coronavirus prevention information in their native languages.Photo courtesy of Taichung City Government

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A Vietnamese migrant fisherman squeezes into his tiny bunk, picks out a bed bug and shows it to Father Gioan Tran Van Thiet. Usually Tran would be thinking of how to get the workers out of these squalid and cramped boat cabins, for which they pay up to NT$5,000 a month in “lodging fees.” But he now has additional concerns with the outbreak of COVID-19.

Tran, a Vietnamese priest who runs the Migrant Workers’ Concern Desk at St Christopher’s Church in Taipei, was in Yilan on Feb. 15 handing out face masks, jackets and sweaters to the migrant fishermen. He acknowledges, however, that these measures won’t help if a fisher becomes infected with the coronavirus because they typically live in overcrowded spaces.

“The mask is minimum protection and makes them feel safer, but real prevention is to give them better living conditions,” Tran says.

NGOs are concerned that Taiwan’s 700,000-strong migrant workers, including factory workers, domestic helpers and caregivers, aren’t being given adequate protections against the virus. Concerns revolve around the prevention measures, medical translation and their crowded communal living conditions.

Though the government has made an effort to provide translations of prevention measures, the dissemination of this information is largely left to employers and brokers. And since the latest case of infection involves an illegal migrant caregiver, concerns have been raised about increased societal stigmatization.

“Dealing with this coronavirus has to be the responsibility of everybody, but employers often forget ... and brokers are only concerned about their monthly fee,” Tran says. “We can’t just depend on the government. We need to create an atmosphere where we have to protect ourselves and others as well.”

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The fishermen are the worst case scenario, but Lennon Wong (汪英達), director of Serve the People Association (桃園市群眾服務協會), says other migrant workers are also at risk. Many caregivers care for the elderly and sick and frequently visit hospitals, while factory workers usually live in close quarters at company-provided dorms.

The government has translated its coronavirus prevention information into Indonesian, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Thai — the languages most commonly spoken by migrant workers — and disseminated it at places the workers are known to frequent, as well as online. It has also called for employers and local officials to make sure adequate information and measures are provided. Those who don’t provide face masks to caregivers, for example, can be fined.

But not all employers follow the rules. One of the fishermen Tran visited said he didn’t know there was mask rationing, hearing nothing from his employer and broker.

However, the government response has shown significant improvement since the SARS epidemic in 2003. Taiwan Panorama reported that many migrant workers didn’t know about the epidemic during its early stages. It wasn’t until three caregivers died about three months after the beginning of the SARS outbreak that the government rushed to translate and distribute prevention information. And only then did the Council of Labor of Affairs, which is today the Ministry of Labor, warn employers against firing infected workers and provide quarantine advisories.

Wong first brought up the issue of migrant workers and virus prevention in a blog post earlier this month.

title: Virus prevention for the exploited


title: Virus outbreak: CECC has not changed its mask policy

people: 蔣萬安 陳時中

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Travelers yesterday pass through the gates to the Taiwan High Speed Rail platforms at Taipei Railway Station.Photo: CNA
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said its policy and advice on wearing masks for preventing COVID-19 infection have not changed.

“Our guidelines and policy for wearing masks have not changed, but people should consider wearing a mask in enclosed crowded spaces with poor air ventilation,” Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news conference in Taipei.

People who must attend events in small crowded venues, where they would have frequent and close contact with other people, are advised to wear a mask, he said.

Chen’s comments follow remarks yesterday from Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安), who said that the CECC should reconsider its previous suggestion that healthy people do not have to wear masks, as confirmed cases of COVID-19 with an unclear source of infection have been reported in Taiwan.

Although some elected politicians might feel obligated to attend weddings, funerals or other events in their electoral districts, Chen said that such “visits are unnecessary at this time,” and that “while not attending them would not be considered rude, attending them might cause a lot of trouble to everyone.”

He said the center urged government officials to avoid attending all events that are densely crowded with people.

Chen also said that people should avoid unnecessary visits to hospitals and instead should use video chat to speak with friends or family who are hospitalized to reduce the risk of cross-infection and the burden on medical staff.

The CECC also responded to a question about a veterinarian who on Friday wrote on Facebook that after the government centralized the distribution of masks, medical professionals received thinner and more expensive masks.

Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞) said that there are normal medical masks and surgical masks, and the difference is that surgical masks must be tested to ensure they prevent blood from penetrating the fabric.

The production of surgical masks has increased from about 300,000 masks per day to 600,000 per day, Lo said.

“As for claims that the masks have become thinner, they may have received normal medical masks, which have not passed a blood-penetration test, but according to the Food and Drug Administration’s standard, they have the same effect in blocking microorganisms and preventing virus infection as surgical masks,” he said.

The CECC has continued to supply hospitals with more masks in the past few weeks, bringing the reserved inventory levels up to about 30 days worth and the N95 respirator masks and protective clothing inventory up to about 25 days, for all hospitals, Lo said.

Frontline medical staff do not have to worry when receiving the so-called “thinner” masks, because they have the same protection against COVID-19 droplet infection, he said.

Additional reporting by CNA

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title: New Zealand’s bowling ‘pack’ leave India reeling

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India’s Umesh Yadav walks toward the dressing rooms after he was bowled by New Zealand’s Trent Boult on day 2 of the second Test at Hagley Oval in Christchurch, New Zealand, yesterday.Photo: AP
New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult said his side’s “pack” mentality had left India reeling on day 2 of the second Test, on which 16 wickets fell including another cheap dismissal for Virat Kohli in Christchurch yesterday.

At stumps India led by just 97 with only four wickets remaining and three days to play.

Kohli’s side dismissed New Zealand for 235 to take a seven-run first-innings lead, but they stuttered to 90-6 at stumps, with Boult taking 3-12 off nine overs.

“The bowlers obviously pitched the ball up nicely and got rewards seeing the ball move around like it did,” Boult said. “I feel we’re in a decent position.”

“We’re all enjoying hunting out there as a pack, getting the ball to move around, and I think the bowling unit is very clear about how we’re trying to target the opposition,” he said.

The tourists were left to rue their inability to remove tailenders when New Zealand’s last three wickets put on 82, led by a polished 49 from Kyle Jamieson.

With a small first-innings advantage, India needed to build a substantial total for New Zealand to chase, but they went off script from the start with Mayank Agarwal out for 3 in the second over.

Prithvi Shaw followed for 14 and at 26-2, with India needing a win to square the series, the opportunity was ripe for a captain’s knock from Kohli.

However, on 14, a full delivery from Colin de Grandhomme cut back into his pads and he was gone.

“It was a good feeling to see the back of him,” Boult said of Kohli’s dismissal. “Obviously he’s a big player for them and we were just try to put enough pressure on him, keep him quiet and it was nice to see him make a few errors.”

The 31-year-old, who came to New Zealand as the world’s top-ranked batsman, has scores of 2, 19, 3 and 14 in the series.

Ajinkya Rahane was bowled for 9, Cheteshwar Pujara went for 24 and Umesh Yadav for 1 in the final six overs of the day.

After New Zealand resumed the day at 63-0, the combined efforts of Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja has seen them slump to 153-7 before Jamieson, in his second Test, underscored his all-round credentials having taken five wickets in India’s first innings.

De Grandhomme with 26 and Neil Wagner’s 21 were the other key contributors in the late run spree, with Wagner’s dismissal the result of an exceptional one-handed catch by a leaping Jadeja at square-leg.

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根據PTT的網友分享「武漢肺炎歷史軌跡比對」這個網站，這是g0v推出一個可以自動檢查你是否碰過武漢肺炎患者的網站，主要的原理就是透過你在Google地圖記錄你的時間軸足跡，比對目前指揮中心公布的患者的足跡，看看兩邊的足跡是否有重疊。當然，你也可以手動自己檢查，但是隨著病例越來越多，當然還是線上直接比對來得方便。👉 歡迎加入T客邦telegram  ( https://t.me/TechbangNEWS )

武漢肺炎歷史軌跡比對設計的相當直覺，應該你一連上去就可以看懂該怎麼做。網站上有四個步驟照著走就好了。如果你擔心隱私的問題，網站上一開始也先表示，這個程式藉由比對你的手機歷史位置記錄，來判斷是否曾與病患接觸。基於隱私考量，你的資料只會在本地端處理，不會上傳到任何網路主機。

當然前提是你先前必須先讓你的手機定位記錄功能有開啟，允許Google地圖記錄。如果沒有的話，那麼這個網站就不適合你查詢。不過，你現在開始開啟記錄的功能，日後說不定還是用得到。

確定有紀錄後就可以到第二步，小編去他們的github網站查了一下原理，這個步驟選擇要「下載的區間」應該是下載你自己的歷史軌跡資料。

再來就是到第三步，把你剛剛下載的資料載入進行針對足跡的發生時間以及地點來比對，看看是否有相吻合。根據他們網站的說明，為了保護隱私，他們用的比對方法是採用了名為 ST hash (SpaceTime hash)的演算法得到雜湊值，然後再針對你的時間軌跡資料透過相同的演算法求出雜湊值，藉此求出你是否有在特定的時間點與患者足跡重疊。

最後就顯示出比對結果。

如果對於這個有疑慮，或是覺得不安心的話，有能力的網友也可以自己去檢查他們的原始碼。或是自己架站來建立你覺得更好的版本。

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昨天上午，「兩岸同祈福，神農佑中華」海峽兩岸炎帝神農文化線上交流活動，在中華民族始祖炎帝神農氏陵寢聖地、湖南省炎陵縣炎帝陵，和台灣中華神農大帝協進會部分神農宮廟同時舉行。在炎陵縣炎帝陵祖廟，守陵人與台灣神農宮廟代表，共同拜謁炎帝神農氏。

兩岸攜手共同舉辦本次消災除疫祈福活動，為兩岸同胞祈福，祈福兩岸平安，為中華民族祈福。擊鼓九通，鳴金九響。昨天上午十點半，祈福活動正式開始。行禮亭內，禮樂聲中，炎帝陵守陵人李園平和社會各界代表，向炎帝敬獻貢品與花籃。焚香祝告，虔誠肅穆。炎帝聖像前，守陵人李園平恭讀祝文，為兩岸祈福，祈禱早日戰勝疫情。

同一時間，台灣中華神農大帝協進會，在新北市瑞芳青雲殿舉辦「西元2020年，歲次庚子，海峽兩岸同祭神農炎帝祈福除疫大典」，線上共有5個宮廟和3千餘名信眾參加；另有線下15個宮廟舉行活動，觀禮規模超過5千人。從恭迎神農炎帝祖廟聖駕入殿駐駕安座，到優人神鼓演奏盤古開天－初之心，再到祈福除疫獻禮儀式，活動過程莊嚴肅穆。

海峽兩岸對此次活動進行了線上視頻直播，4萬多名觀眾觀看了大陸視頻直播；台灣視頻直播觀眾5萬多名，合計近10萬觀眾。

儀式結束後，李園平站在祖廟大殿炎帝聖像前，與台灣中華神農大帝協進會理事長游炎川微信視頻連線，共祝本次兩岸祈福除疫活動圓滿成功，並共同祈禱炎帝神農氏福佑中華，早日徹底祛除災疫。

炎帝神農氏作為中華族的始祖之一，深受兩岸同胞共同推崇和敬仰，在台灣信眾多達30餘萬，全台有270多家神農宮廟。而湖南株洲市炎陵縣，是炎帝神農氏的安寢聖地。

新冠肺炎疫情發生後，不斷有台灣民眾向湖南捐資捐物，有效緩解防疫物資緊缺的困難。而湖南省台辦疫情防控工作領導小組積極指導各市台辦，主動與台胞台企及台資企業協會的聯繫，保障在湘台胞基本生活、出行條件的同時，深入了解和梳理匯總台資企業復工生產遇到的防疫、用工、資金、訂單、物流等方面的困難問題，主動對接有關職能部門，及時為台企提供支持幫助，讓台企復工生產。截至2月28日，湖南省符合條件且已復工生產的台企有242家。

taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 瑞芳 新北市

title: 兩岸連線祈福 同祭炎帝神農氏


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title: 法國百人確診肺炎 羅浮宮閉館


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「我想要你讓我從後面高潮」，中部地區1名人妻與「小王」先在網路群組中「沙盤推演」，露骨討論性愛高潮姿勢後，隔天假藉爬山，在車上「實兵操作」，人妻的老公發現這段不尋常的對話，追查下綠光罩頂，氣撲撲報警提告。

法官在證物中發現人妻與小王的對話，露骨地鹹濕訊息：「在床上做我每一次都有高潮」、「我想要你讓我從後面高潮」、「找不到那個點？你太離譜了、什麼姿勢不對就不行？」、「我從後面又很快就射出來了、怎麼辦？」、「唯一的辦法就是先用手幫妳用到妳快高潮我再進入我們一起高潮」。

不過，被告「小王」辯稱他們僅是僅是透過網路上文字的性愛對話，否認有「實體」的性關係。

法官後來查證，在這些對話之後，人妻與「小王」隔天真有相約「爬山」的事實，加上人妻坦承她與「小王」有發生性關係，因此認定2人有實質的「親密關係」。最後，人妻因為說出實情換取丈夫撤回告訴：而「小王」犯後否認犯行，又未與對方達成和解，因此依相姦罪嫌判5月徒刑，得易科罰金15萬元。可上訴。

★不正常的男女關係是家庭的殺手。關心您

title: 讓我從後面高潮 人妻沙盤推演搭小王實兵操作


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獨派的台灣社、台灣北社等社團昨（1）日發表共同聲明，呼籲政府即刻下令暫時停飛所有與中國的往返班機。對此，作家洛杉基也呼籲，兩岸必須立刻斷航，禁止兩岸人民來往，如果不配合獨派的要求，只能說這個政府是小孬孬！

新冠肺炎疫情延燒，根據中國時報記者報導，獨派的台灣社、台灣北社等社團昨（1）日發表共同聲明，呼籲政府即刻下令暫時停飛所有與中國的往返班機。

台灣社、台灣北社、台灣中社、台灣南社、台灣東社(花蓮)、台灣東社(台東)、台灣客社在聲明中指出，新冠肺炎自2019年12月爆發以來，中國大陸已有近8萬名確診及近3千人死亡。

聲明中指出，台灣在這波疫情中是站在第一線，對病毒傳播的各項政策應以最為嚴謹的角度來思考。目前台灣與中國北京、上海浦東、上海虹橋、廈門、成都等5處，每周仍有班機往返。

本土社團呼籲政府應即刻下令暫時停飛所有與中國之往返班機，確實把來自中國的武漢肺炎病毒最大傳播途徑與風險阻絕於境外。對於滯留中國經第三地轉進台灣的台商，也應予以嚴密追蹤與註記，確保台灣疫情的可控性。

對此，作家洛杉基也呼籲，兩岸必須立刻斷航，禁止兩岸人民來往，以遏止新冠肺炎疫情擴散！既然民進黨已經完全執政、國會過半，蔡英文又得到817萬人支持，如果這時候再不配合獨派的要求，只能說這個政府是小孬孬！

title: 洛杉基呼籲蔡政府做這件事 否則是小孬孬

events: 武漢肺炎 死亡

countries: 中國 台灣


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疫情無情人有情。互聯網醫院的推出，不但再一次踐行了我們對羅湖醫改的目標，更讓廣大市民朋友再一次檢閱了羅湖醫院集團不斷提升的醫療實力和服務。抗擊疫情勝利后，我們還將繼續拓展互聯網醫院服務內容，延伸輻射範圍。

——羅湖醫院集團院長孫喜琢

59歲的裴女士，家住深圳市羅湖區黃貝嶺，2019年底在羅湖區人民醫院做了腰椎融合手術，按照醫囑，1個半月後要去醫院複診。因為新冠肺炎疫情的爆發，裴女士擔心去醫院會交叉感染。2月11日，她通過羅湖醫院集團的互聯網醫院進行了線上問診，還預約了體檢車到黃貝嶺社康中心複查拍片，免去舟車勞頓，在家門口就完成了全套複診流程。

據羅湖區婦保院副院長、集團信息中心主任陳家林透露，自從2月4日羅湖醫院集團互聯網醫院上線以來，截至2月28日，累計問診量達9200多人次，最高的一天接近900人次，平均每天400多人次。開具處方3600多人次，快遞藥品送到患者家中（含中藥代煎）超過3000單，其中不乏省外病人，而且各項數字在不斷迅速上升。

在這場抗疫攻堅戰中，互聯網醫院正逐漸顯現出其「硬核」優勢。

預防交叉感染是當務之急

2020年2月4日中午12點：羅湖區人民醫院。

快遞員利索地從藥房收齊藥品、打包裝車。

下午5點，快遞員會再來一趟，以便儘快將藥品送到一群特殊患者的手中——他們是羅湖醫院集團互聯網醫院線上開藥的「嘗鮮者」。

大年初二，在嚴峻的疫情防控形勢下，羅湖醫院集團信息科放棄休假，全體回院加班；短短幾天內，藥劑科就建立起快遞通道；戰略合作夥伴、深圳本土高科技企業安泰創新同步加速研發，全力以赴……

多方配合下，羅湖醫院集團互聯網醫院火速宣告上線。

疫情當前，互聯網醫院的「非接觸式診療」優勢盡顯，不但及時幫助普通發熱和慢性病患者在疫情期間就醫續葯，減少了院內就診的交叉感染機率，也有效降低了醫務人員的感染隱患——醫生與病人在手機端就可進行會診、轉診與病歷討論。

創新技術加上貼心服務，患者和醫生一致點讚，醫改樣板羅湖醫院集團的深圳式硬核戰疫打出了漂亮一擊。

微信掃一掃加個醫生朋友

「患者的核心訴求是找醫生，如今，患者在羅湖醫院線下就診時，微信掃一掃就可加醫生為朋友，建立專屬互聯網醫院診室，患者和醫生可以像微信一樣聊天，問診、開單、支付到醫技預約等全部在診室內一站式完成。」 安泰創新產品總監李太和介紹。

如何提升患者體驗，讓系統簡單、易用，也是醫院關注的重點。然而，將微信小程序作為患者端，極大地消解了這一擔憂。醫院安排了20名線上客服，每天會收到數百條諮詢，但很少涉及使用障礙。

紙質病曆本，雜亂無章的檢驗檢查單，難以攜帶不易保存的膠片……針對這些難題，安泰創新基於醫療大數據技術，為每位患者定製了專屬「健康檔案」，包括歷次診療記錄、檢查報告、電子膠片等，尋醫問診，只要有手機就行。

三甲醫院「來」到居民樓下

停車難，排長隊，患者有時需多次往返醫院，或者看一次病要在醫院逗留一整天……只有將這些問題都解決，互聯網醫院才稱得上成功。最初的建設思路討論會上，孫喜琢院長曾這樣提出要求。

隨著羅湖醫院集團內6家醫院、31家社康中心同步上線，並打通業務流程，這可能是國內大型醫療集團藉助互聯網醫院打通醫聯體業務的首次成功探索。

患者在線上開單，可預約集團內任意一醫院或社康中心做檢查，4台流動體檢車也能到市內居民點，提供抽血、超聲、X光片、心電圖服務。

疫情期間，羅湖醫院集團互聯網醫院的所有科室，均向患者提供免費問診服務，開藥還會贈送口罩。同時，醫院也自掏腰包給醫生補貼診金。

羅湖醫院集團信息中心主任陳家林表示：「作為政府公立醫院，疫情當前，更要為轄區居民提供好的醫療服務，減少到院就診的擔心、恐懼。在發熱門診和疫情防控之外，日常診療需求更大，也希望這些活動能讓患者習慣網上就診。」

手機就是醫生全能工作站

羅湖醫院集團下屬機構累計已有1100多名醫生在線上註冊，近期將增至2000名。這套新系統的醫生端是一個定製版APP，功能豐富，但操作簡單，很少有醫生抱怨系統不好用。

一款備受醫生歡迎的APP，是如何誕生的呢?

安泰創新產品總監李太和認為，數據、流程、管理的同步上線，可以讓一部手機化身為醫生的全能工作站。

在羅湖醫院集團醫生端APP，醫生可以隨時調閱線上患者的完整病歷，包括影像DICOM原圖，以此保障高質量的線上問診，還可以進行遠程會診、轉診、病歷討論、遠程查房等，開展醫聯體業務。

而線上支付、醫技預約、院外藥房、物流等非醫療數據的對接，既提升了患者就醫體驗，也為醫院運營管理提供必要的數據支撐，實現了業務線上線下一體化，服務主體與監管無縫對接，醫療質控全流程可追溯。

集團新成員「代號7」

孫喜琢院長表示：「疫情無情人有情，互聯網醫院的推出，不但讓我們再一次踐行羅湖醫改的目標，也讓廣大市民朋友再一次檢閱了羅湖醫院集團的醫療實力和服務的提升，醫療質量、醫療水平以及醫療安全保障的提高。互聯網醫院是一個平台，抗擊疫情勝利后，我們還將繼續拓展互聯網醫院服務內容，延伸服務輻射範圍。」

作為心內科醫生，孫喜琢院長也親自在互聯網醫院出診，已完成了近20例問診，為部分患者在線上續方開藥。

談及羅湖醫院集團互聯網醫院的優勢，陳家林認為主要在於集團的執行力和一體化管理，有藥師、檢驗師、放射診斷醫師、心理諮詢師等眾多骨幹醫師服務患者，以及有一個好的戰略合作夥伴安泰創新，和本院信息化團隊提供技術支撐。

在羅湖醫院集團的規劃中，希望互聯網醫院運營到一定規模后，能夠成為集團第七家醫院：既有實體醫院支撐，也有其專業管理和運營團隊，吸引院外、境外醫生加入平台執業，得多更多國內外忠實患者的認可，做成有規模、有影響力的線上醫院。

title: 安泰創新：助力羅湖互聯網醫院硬核「戰疫」


events: 新冠病毒 冠狀病毒 死亡

title: 底數不清，美國疫情或比預想中嚴重

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原標題：底數不清，美國疫情或比預想中嚴重

美國當前最可慮的是對本國疫情狀況「不摸底」。

新冠肺炎疫情近期最明顯的變化是在國際上迅速蔓延。截至2月29日，全球總計79971例確診、2873例死亡病例中，海外確診人數和死亡人數已分別猛增至7266例和108例，雖仍是少數，但增幅和擴散速度，令人擔憂。

在這其中美國確診和死亡病例分別只有69例和1例，看似只佔微不足道的比例，但是卻未必能夠完全反映出美國新冠肺炎疫情的真實情況。

即以當地時間2月29日剛宣布死亡的華盛頓州金縣某病例而言，該縣是美國首次進行新冠病毒檢測、首例發現確診的地方，且華盛頓州全部已發現5例確診病例中竟有3例來自金縣，可謂「重點中之重點」，但在如此情境下，這位死亡患者卻一直拖到幾天前才進行了試劑測試，並在去世前不久確診。而另有一名醫護人員和一名70歲療養中心養老人員，也是在2月29日剛剛確診的。有消息稱，當地柯克蘭療養中心已發現52名疑似者，但他們大多未「排上」進行新冠病毒檢測。

儘管美國早在1月中旬就宣布對新冠肺炎疫情的「關注」，並很早開始進行新冠病毒檢測，但這一進程十分緩慢，迄今接受過試劑測試的疑似者不過數百人，且能夠進行試劑測試的實驗室也增長緩慢，以至於美國食品及藥品管理局（FDA）不得不在2月28日動用緊急授權（EUA），宣布「允許某些實驗室在資質審核通過前開始進行冠狀病毒檢測」。

正如許多美國及國際相關專家所指出的，美國當前最可慮的不是確診及死亡人數，而是對本國疫情狀況底數不清：由於篩查、檢測滯后，許多疑似者和潛在的、更多的無癥狀病毒攜帶者，可能在「不設防」狀態下活動，並造成更廣泛的疫情傳播。

有媒體稱，最新的3例確診分別來自加州、俄勒岡州和華盛頓州三地，他們共同的特點是既沒有相關海外旅行史，近期也沒有任何與海外歸來者或疑似感染者接觸的歷史——那麼，他們身上的病毒從哪裡來？那些讓他們染疫的傳播者如今在哪裡？又傳播了多少地方和多少人？沒有「摸底」，美國政府對疫情的危急程度也就難有準確認知。

無疑，當新冠肺炎疫情來臨時，美國也未免措手不及。美國此前宣布，海外歸來的美國公民、綠卡居民等均需隔離14天，但所謂「隔離」只是「自覺自愿」，隔離者在毫無監控狀態下可以自由活動，這其實擴大了感染風險。

日前美國弗萊德·哈欽森癌症研究中心研究員、華盛頓大學學者貝德福德根據數據模型得出推斷，稱在這種「不摸底」狀態下，新冠病毒可能已在美國進行了近6周社區傳播，已有150-1500人被感染或正在感染他人，這加劇著美國疫情的嚴重程度。

所以對於美國而言，摸清疫情底數，或許是下一步科學防控、遏制疫情的基礎。□陶短房（專欄作者）


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原標題：大學生「硬核隔離38天」，體現勇氣與擔當

這兩天，武漢大學生郭岳因「硬核隔離38天，未連累一名親友」受到網友關注。

從離開武漢回到河北老家隔離、確診、治療再隔離，他的一系列操作堪稱典範。而在治愈出院后，他還給一名新冠肺炎患者捐獻血漿，並且仍獨自住在家中車庫裡，打算再住滿一個14天，「這樣更安全一些，也不會給家人和周圍人帶去不必要的麻煩」。

網友將郭岳的防護與自我隔離行為稱為「硬核」，「硬」在哪裡？

首先自武漢踏上回鄉旅程開始，郭岳就做好了「全副武裝」——戴了3層口罩和手套，且在途中沒和任何人交談；落地之後，他讓提前開車來接他的父親對自己全身和行李進行消毒；回到家之後，他又主動聯繫社區說明自己的情況，把自己隔離在卧室里，沒有接觸任何人；隨後是確診、治療，郭岳順利出院，但他仍沒有選擇與家人生活在一起，而是在車庫中獨居，將自己繼續隔離28天。

這就是郭岳的教科書式自我隔離，整個過程中，我們看到了一個大學生的良好教養、超強自製力與社會責任感。所謂「硬核」云云，不過是操作其表，品格其里。

眾所周知，在疫情聯防聯控機制中，從中央到地方反覆提及要層層壓實「四方責任」，而四方責任的一個重要方面就是個人責任。個人責任既包括戴口罩、勤洗手等日常防護，也包括需及時上報健康狀況、行動來源以及加強自我隔離等。

郭岳自始至終都在嚴格踐行個體防護責任：離開武漢時全副武裝本質上是「防擴散」；回到老家時嚴格自我隔離，這是「防輸入」。這番全流程操作把個體防護責任做到了極致，最大限度地切斷了傳染源，最終，郭岳以及他的家人也都因此獲益。

郭岳的「硬核隔離」走紅並得到廣泛認同，再次申明了一個道理：全力做好個人防護與隔離，是對自己負責，對家人負責，也是對全社會負責。疫情面前，每個人都需做好自我防護與隔離，這是築牢疫情防護之牆的前提。每個人從「末梢」端拿出郭岳式防控態度，顯然也宜成為落實個體防疫責任的「標準動作」。

□新吾（媒體人）

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title: 大學生「硬核隔離38天」，體現勇氣與擔當


title: 教廷公開二戰教宗檔案 有望解密大屠殺沉默歷史

countries: 美國 梵蒂岡 德國

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教廷明天將公布史上幾位最具爭議性的教宗機密檔案，有望闡明為何昔日教宗庇護十二世（Pius XII）在二次世界大戰期間對600萬猶太人遭屠殺保持沉默。

庇護十二世由1939至1958年擔任教宗，部分猶太人指控他任內對納粹大屠殺視若無睹、未予以強烈譴責。教廷一直以來皆聲稱，庇護十二世當時選擇默默在檯面下援助猶太人，以免對其他包括天主教徒在內的潛在納粹受害者不利。

法新社報導，200名研究人員早已要求取得大量文件，教廷檔案保管人員費時14年多完成編制後終於公開。曾獲獎的德國宗教歷史學家沃爾夫（Hubert Wolf）明天將赴羅馬，帶著6名助理和兩年經費開始深入研究來自這位已故教宗「私人秘書處」的文件。

專門研究庇護十二世和納粹關係的沃爾夫渴望發現他的70位大使筆記，因為庇護十二世擔任教宗期間，這些人是他的耳目。

當中應該也有猶太人組織緊急求救的紀錄，以及他與美國已故總統小羅斯福（Franklin D. Roosevelt）的聯繫資料。

密封的檔案還涵蓋二戰後時期，作家遭受審查和部分神父因疑似同情共產主義者而被追捕的紀錄。

沃爾夫在訪問中說，耶穌會早已公布「教宗收到有關集中營的文件，但我們從沒機會看到他的回覆」。

他告訴法新社：「要麼不存在，要麼就是收藏在梵蒂岡。」


title: 美軍簽署協議 將加速撤出阿富汗

countries: 阿富汗 美國

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美國與阿富汗民兵組織塔利班（Taliban）2月29日簽署一項歷史性的協議，為終結美軍在阿國長達18年的戰爭鋪路。川普上月29日表示，美軍將自阿富汗撤離，近期內他也會與塔利班的領袖會面。

根據這項協議，要在簽署協議的135天內將美國於阿富汗駐軍人數由1.3萬人降至8,600人。美國和北約成員國同意在14個月內從阿富汗撤出全部部隊，條件是塔利班遵守和維持停戰協議。

川普說，「是時候把我們的人帶回家了」，5,000名美國部隊將在5月前離開阿富汗。他並表示將很快與塔利班領袖會見，但也說：「假如發生不好的事，我們將會回來。」

許多人預期，未來塔利班與阿富汗政府的停火談判可能更複雜許多；美國國防部長埃斯培說，這項協議是良好一步，但眼前的道路並不好走；安全專家也稱這是一場外交政策的豪賭，將賦予塔利班國際合法性。

美國在911恐怖攻擊事件後開始入侵阿富汗，從2001年10月至今，總共有2,400多名美軍命喪阿國，付出巨大的傷亡代價。

這項協議不僅象徵川普要使美國從中東和南亞「無止境戰爭」脫身的最重要努力之一，也將兌現他之前的承諾，要在11月美國大選前讓美國士兵回家。


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（德國之聲中文網）美國和塔利班於周六（2月29日）在卡塔爾簽署了一項旨在結束阿富汗戰爭的重要協議。簽署雙方都稱該協議是具有歷史意義的裡程碑，是飽經戰禍的阿富汗實現和平的重要一步。

阿富汗政府雖然沒有直接參與協議簽署，但是卻派遣了一支代表團見證了在多哈舉行的簽署儀式。阿富汗總統賈尼（Ashraf Ghani）周日表示，無法保證執行釋放5000名塔利班囚犯的要求。賈尼在喀布爾舉行的新聞發布會上指出："阿富汗的內部談判中可以加入對此事項的討論，但是不能將此作為對話的先決條件。"賈尼補充道，釋放塔利班囚犯"屬於阿富汗政府而非美國政府的職權範圍"。

根據美國和塔利班簽署的協議，在3月10日前，美方與阿富汗政府會釋放最多5000名囚犯，塔利班則會釋放最多1000名囚犯。

該協議的重要內容還包括美軍從阿富汗逐步撤軍，美國將在135天之內，從目前駐扎在阿富汗的1.2萬名士兵中撤出8600人。作為對應條件，塔利班則承諾不再讓阿富汗成為恐怖分子的庇護所，並與喀布爾政府進行和平談判。包括塔利班在內的阿富汗各方將於3月10日開始內部談判，討論"完全和永久停火"的時間和方式。如果塔利班嚴格履行協議條款，美軍將在14個月內完全撤出阿富汗。

最終目標：全面停火

根據聯合國網站消息，聯合國秘書長古特雷斯周六就該和平協議發表聲明，對實現阿富汗"持久政治解決方案"的努力表示贊許，聲明稱"今天在多哈和喀布爾所發生的一切，標志著各方在這一領域的重要進展。" 古特雷斯還希望"阿富汗人民對於和平的深切渴望"能夠通過由阿富汗人主導的包容性進程得到實現，希望阿富汗的婦女和青年能夠真正參與其中。他在聲明中重申，"聯合國致力於支持阿富汗的政府和人民"。

在此次協議簽署前，阿富汗經歷了暴力減少、較為平靜的七天。阿富汗總統賈尼周日還表示，阿富汗將繼續減少暴力，以至最終達成全面停火的目標。他說："米勒(Scott Miller)上將已要求塔利班如此行事"。他口中的米勒上將是美國駐阿富汗部隊指揮官。但是，加尼對即將舉行阿富汗內部談判持懷疑態度。

此前，塔利班多次稱阿富汗政府為美國的"傀儡"，一直拒絕與他們直接對話。觀察者認為，阿富汗境內達成和平談判至少需要一年或一年半的時間。

安靜/任琛 (路透社, 法新社，聯合國新聞)

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taiwan-subdivisions: 新社 和平

countries: 美國 阿富汗 德國

title: 阿富汗：釋放塔利班囚犯 美國說了不算


taiwan-subdivisions: 桃園 中壢

things: 防疫 經濟

title: 武漢肺炎》桃市「全方位健康關懷包」 228連假免費送到家

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〔記者李容萍／桃園報導〕因應武漢肺炎防疫，桃園市先前曾有居家檢疫民眾「偷跑」案例，經調查有民眾是為了買東西才違規出門，市府新推出市民專屬的「 全方位健康關懷包」，有裝上兩大袋的零食、泡麵、中藥材、用來消毒環境的氯錠，以及總共14片的口罩，從228連假開始免費發送，中壢等區公所里幹事、各衛生所公衛護理師連日犧牲連假，分頭把關懷包送到還在居家檢疫和隔離民眾的住所，希望做到防疫滴水不漏！

據市府民政局、衛生局統計，迄2月底，桃園市現有居家檢疫人數716人、已解除3061人，現有居家隔離人數130人、已解除204人，面對居家檢疫民眾「偷跑」情形，市府為避免民眾出門購物，獲得企業等單位贊助各式餅乾、零食、泡麵、燕麥、水、飲料、藥膳料理、14片口罩和14顆氯錠（搗碎後加入水可以製成漂白水消毒環境），以及提供垃圾清運服務等。另提供線上購物服務及娛樂平台，希望讓居家檢疫、居家隔離的人，能夠方便在家休息，健康度過防疫的這段時間！

民政局自治行政科表示，居家檢疫民眾以從中港澳回台者居多，多數經濟還不錯，但有人苦於無法出門買尿布、奶粉，里幹事得知需求均會代買，這些服務全程採不接觸原則，均放在檢疫者家門口為原則。至於外界關心的斷炊問題，目前便當的供應暢通，倒是衛生局1日接獲有居家隔離者想自己煮卻發現米缸沒米，也由公衛護理師幫忙買米。

桃園市長鄭文燦則在臉書PO文感謝食品在地業者佳格、義美、乖乖、聯華、金車等企業，以及中藥公會為防疫盡一份心力，讓居家檢疫及隔離者可以在家安心度過防疫期。

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title: 饒河夜市運將排班糾紛 拿球棍互毆到頭破血流

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2020-03-02 00:03:05

〔記者鄭景議／台北報導〕台北市饒河夜市1日晚間有2名計程車司機，因為排班糾紛，竟吵得不可開交，拿起球棒互毆，打到頭破血流，嚇壞不少民眾，警方獲報迅速到現場處理，並協助兩名司機送醫，目前兩人都還在醫院診治，並表示要互告傷害，2日將雙雙前往轄區派出所報案說明。

據了解，因1日為連假最後一天，晚間許多民眾在逛夜市，突然間2名計程車司機，在大街上就拿球棒互毆，還打到滿頭是血，嚇壞不少民眾，所幸警方迅速抵達處理，兩名司機送醫後暫無大礙；警方表示，兩人出院後會再來派出所，向對方提告，並對案情做說明。


title: 武漢肺炎》史上最長寒假結束 各大學校園防疫上緊發條

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［記者吳俊鋒／台南報導］由於「武漢肺炎」的影響，史上最長的大學寒假，今晚終於告一段落，明天正式開課了，各校都繃緊神經，提出因應措施，包含增設體溫量測站、規劃戶外用餐區，以及教室門窗都要開啟，甚至全面戴口罩等，備戰防疫工作，絲毫不敢馬虎。

避免群聚感染，多數大專院校延長寒假，至3月2日才開學，為讓教職員生安心上課，不僅已完成環境的消毒，也將確實執行因應措施，量測體溫絕對是必要工作。

嘉南藥理大學居家檢疫的38位港澳生，都已健康「出關」，校方取消全部地下室的上課地點，改至通風較為理想的處所。

嘉藥已請學生準備酒精、口罩，還有體溫計，搭配健康關懷系統，以班級為單位，每天量測，並確實上網登錄。

長榮大學也在各重要據點規劃了體溫量測站，被蓋上安心標章後才能進入，將動員教職員工，協助實施，希望做到防疫滴水不漏。

遠東科大請導師先進行旅遊史、接觸史與健康史的調查，了解學子寒假期間的狀況，校內也設置十個體溫檢測站，即時掌握教職員生的情形，一旦遇有發燒，由衛保組再確認後，立刻因應、處理。

崑山科大在非戶外的聚會場所設置熱像儀，嚴密管控，體溫的量測，要額溫與耳溫雙重確認，上課教室要打開門窗，學生全面戴口罩。

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男警妻只告小三、並未控告劈腿的警察丈夫，法官替被告鳴不平說這樣有欠公允，所以從輕發落、給被告緩刑2年。（情境照）

2020-03-02 00:16:15

〔記者王俊忠／台南報導〕台南市警局1名已婚男刑警於2017年至2018年10月下旬，與小三「小佳」在汽車旅館或小佳住處發生5次婚外情性關係，直到男警與小三婚外情爆發，男刑警被南市警局記過與改調制服警察，男警妻得知後怒告小三破壞家庭。台南地院以小佳犯5個相姦罪、合併判她4個月徒刑、緩刑2年。

台南地院法官表示，小佳在法院開庭時表達願以20萬元賠償男警妻子，因男警妻無和解意願才破局。且男警妻只告小三、並未控告警察丈夫，法官還替小佳鳴不平說這樣對小佳有欠公允，所以從輕發落、給被告緩刑2年。

判決指出，小佳於2017年1月初與男警開始交往，同年3月間，她得知男警是人夫後，仍基於相姦犯意，從知悉時起到2018年10月下旬，在台南市南區某汽車旅館或小佳位於南市的住處，前後與男警發生5次性行為。

後來，因男警與小佳的感情糾紛，2019年1月間，男警服務的警局單位將他記過、同時改調制服員警與服務單位，男警妻子才得知丈夫外遇、偷吃小佳情事，憤而向檢方提告查辦小佳。

一審法官審認，小佳並無犯罪前科，犯後坦承犯行、又表達願意賠償警察元配，有反省與彌補之意，且如無男警的合意，小佳顯無觸犯相姦罪的可能，因男警妻子自始未對男警提出告訴，造成只有小佳受到刑事追訴與處罰，實非公允。

再者，通、相姦罪的除罪化，是我國近來司法議題之一，2017年司法國是會議更作成廢除通姦、相姦罪的決議，警察妻子已對小佳提起刑事附帶民事訴訟，所受損害應能獲得相當填補，認為小佳已得到警惕，以暫不服刑為適當，因此給予小佳緩刑2年的自新機會。

title: 男警劈腿妻只告小三 法官替小三鳴不平


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高雄市長韓國瑜（右）參加二二八紀念活動，獻花給高雄市二二八關懷協會理事長王文宏（左）；當天致詞時卻口誤連連，引起輿論譁然。（資料照，記者葛祐豪攝）

2020-03-01 23:52:55

〔記者王榮祥／高雄報導〕高雄市長韓國瑜228發言失誤，除引發議論、外界也好奇前一晚行程？為韓抱屈的藍營人士今爆料，有可能是前一天、2月27日晚，被郝龍斌蹭到深夜？間接導致韓國瑜準備不足，隔天才會發言失誤？

藍營人士透露，2月27日晚上是國民黨前立委張顯耀協助聯繫，帶郝龍斌南下與韓國瑜碰面，同時「請託支持（補選黨主席）」，郝龍斌還特別向韓國瑜解釋「郭台銘（選總統）不是他找的」。

藍營人士指出，其實韓國瑜選後即決定專心市政，不願碰觸黨務，黨內也多有共識、此時應低調助韓國瑜，才能挺過罷韓這一關；不料，郝龍斌反而在這節骨眼，硬要把韓捲進黨主席選舉，也間接破壞黨中央「低調就是助韓」的默契。

這位藍營人士說，郝龍斌在2月27日晚與韓國瑜碰面，話題頻圍繞在黨主席選舉，韓國瑜回應相對謹慎、不願表態，郝龍斌可能察覺韓國瑜的保留，卻又不肯放棄，所以一直聊到深夜將近11點。

隔天2月28日一早，韓國瑜在二二八紀念活動場合中發言口誤、引起議論與嘲諷，有媒體注意到韓國瑜面容似乎有些疲憊，好奇他前一晚在忙什麼？

有藍營人士看不下去，透漏這段經過，批評郝龍斌只想著自己的選戰，卻「蹭韓」到深夜，打攪韓國瑜在重要場合發言前的準備、導致韓國瑜口誤。

people: 韓國瑜 張顯耀 郝龍斌

title: 韓國瑜二二八為何口誤？藍營人士：前夜被「郝」蹭


taiwan-subdivisions: 淡水 烏來 新北市 深坑 公館 新店 臺北

title: 防疫健康運動系列1-3》北水處將打造台北自行車園區

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〔記者陳曉宜／台北報導〕「建中狂騎團」成員都是從Youbike起步，逐漸從「河濱團」騎到「狂騎團」，成為長期運動項目。所以，狂騎團成員沈克紘說，最怕就是自行車道不平、狹窄，容易跌倒或發生擦撞，導致受傷，這部分雙北領先各縣市，新北市又做得比台北市略好。這部分新北做得比台北好。

臺北自來水事業處發展中心主任朱聖心說，北市府首先推行Youbike，是帶動自行車運動風氣的重要關鍵政策，但現在還缺一個「台北自行車園區」，讓車友聚集、傳播運動資訊，而公館水岸廣場是一個最佳地點，這裡不僅是出發騎往新店、烏來、淡水、深坑起點，周邊還有豐富的公館美食做餐飲支援，還是Youbike站周轉率最高的站點之一。

朱聖心說，公館水岸廣場現已是車友夜騎、假日親子騎車的主要休閒場所，不僅緊鄰自來水博物館前Youbike站，廣場還有腳踏車租借站、維修站，停車場車位充足，方便「4+2」車友停好四輪的汽車，騎著兩輪的自行車出發。但朱聖心說，要建設為「台北自行車園區」，還需增添各種國內外自行車廠牌販售點，以及提供車友休憩的咖啡站，讓車友可以從購車、修車、騎車、休憩的需求同時滿足，未來台北自來水園區內也會提供場地，定期邀請專家舉辦講座，讓車友彼此交流，獲取更多健康、專業的資訊。

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朱聖心說，騎車人口越多，不僅提升國人健康，還可提高環境品質，這就是政府應大力推動的，他以公館地區新增的Youbike2.0為例，使用太陽能設站多，車新好騎，且鎖車、解鎖功能更容易，隨時騎、隨時還，更省錢方便，自己就是Youbike2.0愛好者，從自來水博物館騎到台大校區小木屋買好吃的鬆餅，可以省下不少錢。所以希望下一步，可以建設「台北自行車園區」，提供更優質的自行車環境。

朱聖心說，今年五月，「建中狂騎團」將與「建中狂壘團」舉辦一場 Youbike2.0 PK大賽，從公館水岸出發繞社子島來回四十公里， 這些都是建中三十重聚後，大家最樂此不疲的事。

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〔記者陳曉宜／台北報導〕台大醫學系畢業、耳鼻喉科醫師沈挺毅也是「建中狂騎團」成員，沈醫師說，武漢肺炎，是以在室內、密閉空間群聚感染為主，騎自行車是戶外運動，室外開放空間空氣流通，人與人交流有一定距離，是目前增強免疫力很好的運動。

沈挺毅醫師表示，在河濱公園騎自行車，與車友擦身或迎面而過，都不容易被傳染，武漢肺炎主要傳染途徑是飛沫與接觸傳染，例如有人咳嗽、打噴嚏，含有病毒的口鼻分泌物被噴到身上、沾到手上，再經由口、鼻、眼的黏膜侵入人體。

沈挺毅醫師表示，防止武漢肺炎，除了戴口罩、勤洗手等基本防護外，提高自身健康、增強免疫力更為重要，以目前武漢確診病例的重症案例來看，多是慢性疾病患者，也就是原本身體抵抗力與免疫力就不佳。而騎自行車是增強心肺功能、免疫力很好的運動，不僅可減重，還能防止大腦老化，保持神經系統敏捷反應。

沈挺毅醫師說，自己一直都是自行車愛好者，但五十歲前為了工作和孩子，已三十年沒運動，自從加入狂騎團，每周三次從水岸廣場八腳亭出發上貓空來回持續騎車，再搭配低醣飲食，三個月已瘦了六公斤。

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title: 防疫健康運動系列1-2》醫師：騎自行車增強免疫力