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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
 (AP photo)

 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Sunday (March 15) that the Pacific nation is closely following Taiwan as a model in its battle against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In a Q+A interview with the New Zealand radio Newstalk ZB, Ardern said that the country's officials are banning public gatherings of 500 people or more, including musical festivals and events that are expected to attract large crowds. She pointed out that the New Zealand government has been looking to different countries to gain a better grasp on containing the virus, reported Storm Media.

Ardern said the government has been following Taiwan in advising cancellation of educational institutions and crowded gatherings, which is why schools in New Zealand have not yet been suspended. She called the Taiwanese model "quite successful" and praised the island country for creating an effective framework for mass gatherings.

The New Zealand prime minister emphasized that social distancing has to become the "new normal" and that New Zealanders need to comply with government policies closely to ensure the nation's safety. She noted that there will be "zero tolerance" for foreign tourists who defy the 14-day quarantine requirement after arriving in New Zealand.

According to the Liberty Times, New Zealand was not the first country to model Taiwan for its COVID-19 prevention. On Saturday (March 14), Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also announced that the Middle Eastern country will adopt an anti-terrorism tracking technology that is being used by the health authorities in Taiwan.

journalist: By Ching-Tse Cheng, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

title: New Zealand to follow Taiwan as model for coronavirus prevention


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Aircrafts are parked on a runway at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, March 15, 2020. Due to the Coronavirus Lufthansa had to cancel half of ...
 Aircrafts are parked on a runway at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday, March 15, 2020. Due to the Coronavirus Lufthansa had to cancel half of its flights. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

 BERLIN (AP) — German-based tour company TUI says it is suspending most of its operations until further notice in light of the deepening coronavirus crisis and applying for government help.
 Travel has decreased sharply as more and more countries apply tough new restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19. Germany has joined other nations in advising against nonessential travel abroad, warning of a high risk of being unable to get back home.
 TUI said late Sunday night it has decided “to suspend the vast majority of all travel operations until further notice, including package travel, cruises and hotel operations.”
 It withdrew its earnings guidance for this year and said it was refraining from issuing new guidance in the current circumstances.
 “We are taking substantial cost measures to mitigate the earnings effect,” TUI said. “Moreover, we have decided to apply for state aid guarantees to support the business until normal operations are resumed.”
 The coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 169,000 people and killed more than 6,500. The COVID-19 illness is mild or moderate for most people, but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or people with existing health problems. More than 77,000 people have recovered from it so far, mostly in China.
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 Follow AP coverage of the virus outbreak at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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journalist: By Associated Press

title: German tour firm TUI suspends most operations over virus


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Taiwan's CWB to introduce faster earthquake warning system. (Pixabay photo)
 Taiwan's CWB to introduce faster earthquake warning system. (Pixabay photo)

 The earthquake warning system will work faster from April 6, when information about strong temblors will be released within 10 seconds after their occurrence to buy the public more time to respond, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Monday (March 16).

This means that people will be notified about earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.5 or above on the Richter scale five seconds faster than the current standard, CWB Director-General Yeh Tien-chiang (葉天降) said during a legislative session.

Information about the earthquakes will cover location and depth of their epicenters, when they took place and their magnitudes, Yeh said.

The improvement will provide people 30 kilometers beyond the epicenter of the earthquakes more time to react, according to the CWB.

Yeh said the bureau has moved to install more observation stations, adjusted how they are distributed, and the way the information is analyzed.

journalist: By Central News Agency

title: Taiwan to introduce faster earthquake warning system


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In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area ...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Abdullah Alhassan, 50, who lost both legs after stepping on a landmine, recovers in Idlib central hospital, Sy...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Abdullah Alhassan, 50, who lost both legs after stepping on a landmine, recovers in Idlib central hospital, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a boy plays in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a boy plays in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, children play inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting,...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, children play inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, two Syrians pose for a photo as they ride a motorcycle in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes, in Idl...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, two Syrians pose for a photo as they ride a motorcycle in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a boy stands inside a house destroyed by an airstrike, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area stil...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a boy stands inside a house destroyed by an airstrike, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a baby sleeps in a room inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a baby sleeps in a room inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, women prepare food in a room inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displac...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, women prepare food in a room inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Yasser Alaboud, 45, poses for a photo inside his new home, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area ...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Yasser Alaboud, 45, poses for a photo inside his new home, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Syrians gather inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Syrians gather inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a boy walks out of a heavily damaged building, where he is currently living, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is th...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a boy walks out of a heavily damaged building, where he is currently living, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, children play in an informal camp for people displaced by fighting outside of Idlib city, Syria. Idlib city is...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, children play in an informal camp for people displaced by fighting outside of Idlib city, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a mosque stands next to a a damaged building, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under o...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a mosque stands next to a a damaged building, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Yasmin poses for photo outside her tent at an informal camp for people displaced by fighting outside of Idlib ...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, Yasmin poses for photo outside her tent at an informal camp for people displaced by fighting outside of Idlib city, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a woman stands atop a building in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is ...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a woman stands atop a building in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a patient is prepared for surgery at Idlib central hospital in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a patient is prepared for surgery at Idlib central hospital in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a man rides a motorcycle in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in ...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a man rides a motorcycle in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, livestock are fenced next to a tent at an informal camp for people displaced by fighting outside of Idlib city...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, livestock are fenced next to a tent at an informal camp for people displaced by fighting outside of Idlib city, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a girl stands inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting,...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a girl stands inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting, in Idli, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, children play on the rubble of houses destroyed by airstrikes, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban a...
 In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, children play on the rubble of houses destroyed by airstrikes, in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

 IDLIB, Syria (AP) — "There’s nothing now. Nothing at all,” said Yasser Aboud, as he looked away from his family’s few remaining belongings, dumped on the floor of the bare single room that would now be their home in the northwest Syrian city of Idlib.
 It was a far cry from the house, the farm, and the job that he, his wife and three children left behind two months ago, fleeing their hometown just 15 kilometers (9 miles) down the road as it was overwhelmed by Syrian government troops in furious fighting. He managed to salvage some jerrycans of olives, a few rugs, cushions and pots and pans, and his motorbike. They sold their washing machine and some of his wife’s gold.
 Now they were moving into an apartment in a district full of buildings shattered by government bombardment. He and his wife and three kids will share the place with over a dozen relatives. They’re jobless in a city teeming with thousands of others displaced like them — and they are hardly out of danger.
 The city of Idlib is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year on Monday, has shrunk in geographical scope — focusing on this tiny corner of the country — but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished.
 A bloodier and possibly more disastrous phase is on the horizon if government forces, backed by Russia and Iran, go ahead with threats to recapture Idlib city and the remaining rebel-held north, crammed with over 3 million people.
 Over the past three months, government troops recaptured nearly half of Idlib province and surrounding areas, forcing nearly 1 million to flee their homes, around half of them into other parts of the province, including Idlib city. During the advances, government forces neared Idlib city outskirts, bombing parts and sending thousands fleeing north.
 “I feel everything has ended, and this is a final migration, not displacement,” Aboud said. “I feel let down by the world.”
 The government offensive has been paused by a Russian-Turkish cease-fire deal, leaving residents of the rebel enclave, including Idlib city, in a state of terrifying limbo. They are skeptical that the cease-fire will last and well aware they are likely the next target of the government’s assault.
 Though government airstrikes have hit it regularly, the city has suffered far less violence than other places since 2015, when rebels seized it from government forces. Over the years since, multiple waves of displaced people flowed in, from other opposition areas further south retaken by the government, and now more from other parts of Idlib.
 The Associated Press traveled to Idlib on a trip arranged through Turkish authorities. Its team, like other journalists who have been into the enclave recently, was escorted by members of a media outfit linked to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an al-Qaida-linked group that dominates the area.
 Driving into Idlib city, the AP team witnessed the scale of the displacement. Dozens of tents lined the main road into the city. Other families were crammed into bombed out buildings, the city’s stadium or unfinished construction sites. Shops have sprung around the enclave bearing the names of different cities and towns in Syria — a testimony and a token to the homes they left behind.
 The city has been shaped by the different layers of conflict. Many city streets are clean and well maintained by the opposition administration. But on other streets, buildings are in ruins — some wrecked in previous fighting, others bombed during the most recent offensive. Residents can point out buildings and remember the date they were hit. The city gets only two hours of electricity a day, and Aboud said he chose to buy bread over more power from generators.
 If President Bashar Assad resumes the government offensive, everything here will be vulnerable.
 In past advances, the government’s tactic was to bombard urban areas relentlessly — including with Russian warplanes — flattening residential areas and pummeling the population into submission. Residents, opposition activists and fighters were offered the choice either to stay under “reconciliation” deals or be evacuated to the rebel-held north.
 In Idlib, the residents overwhelmingly fear living under government rule but have nowhere else to run, with Turkey refusing to open its border wall to more refugees.
 Aboud said it was out of the question for him to accept “reconciliation.” Holding his 2-year-old twins by the hand, he said his family fled his hometown of Saraqeb “not fearing death but fearing to be under the rule of Assad again.”
 He took part in the early anti-government protests in 2011 and was detained for it; two of his brothers were shot and killed by government forces in 2012; his mother-in-law was killed in an airstrike the same year.
 If Assad captures Idlib, “we will run to Turkey, we will sleep under the (border) wall,” Aboud said. “The most crucial thing is that we won’t enter territories” held by the government.
 Turkey has deployed thousands of troops in the enclave, operating alongside its Syrian opposition allies. That has diminished the lock on power that the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has held over Idlib since it drove out rival factions in past fighting.
 Mustafa Berro, a commander of a Turkey-backed rebel faction from Aleppo that has now sent forces to Idlib, said his fighters have not lost faith.
 “We are worse off than in 2014” — when rebels held nearly half of Syria — “but we are better off than 2011” when they had no territory to control, he said. “We still have an area to work from and operate in.”
 The massive displacement of past weeks has strained international aid deliveries into the enclave, where 1.5 million receive food assistance. In January alone, 1,227 trucks were sent across the border from Turkey, the largest number in seven years of cross-border operations, said U.N. Assistant Secretary of State Kevin Kennedy, who is also regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria.
 The cease-fire has allowed deliveries to increase, but Kennedy warned that resumption of hostilities in the densely populated urban area would mean more displacement. “The needs are so enormous, the gaps will always be there unfortunately,” he said.
 At Idlib’s Central Hospital, Abdullah AlHassan lay in a bed in excruciating pain. He lost both legs last week when he went back to his village, Afes, to inspect the home he had fled and stepped on a mine planted in the house. His hand was also bandaged and his face full of cuts.
 Afes, on the strategic highway that was the government’s first main objective in its offensive, was all but destroyed and totally deserted, he said. His house had been looted, even metal wires stripped out. The carnage will be similar if the offensive hits Idlib city, he said.
 “No one can stay once such an attack comes. Everyone must leave. If anyone stays, (government forces) won’t spare him.”
 In the center of Idlib city, nearly 90 displaced families found refuge in a deserted prison. They fled here from Maaret al-Numan, a key town in Idlib that fell to government forces in January.
 “We couldn’t afford rent. We opened the door of the prison and we came in,” said Hossam Ajjaj, member of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army who was among the first to move in with his family.
 Families, men and women, live on top of each other in the prison rooms, divided into sleeping, cooking and bathing areas by hung sheets and blankets, giving a deceptive sense of privacy.
 Fida, 44, and her 20-year old daughter Heba share the same room with 11 other relatives. On the day the AP visited, they were stuffing zucchini and eggplants in their living area, where they also cook and bathe — taking turns keeping watch to ensure no one intrudes. A younger brother of Heba who lost a foot in a war injury slept in the room behind the “kitchen.” A baby with Down syndrome slept in his cradle next to the women cooking.
 They had long resisted fleeing their home, just outside Maaret al-Numan. Early in the war, when Heba was 12, they left for six months, but returned. Earlier in 2019, they were displaced for 20 days but again went back. When the Syrian army advanced on Maaret al-Numan in December, they moved into caves just next to their home, hoping it was again just temporary.
 When an airstrike hit just outside the cave, they knew they had to leave. They gave up their large farm growing olives and grapes to live crammed in a prison.
 “We don’t like the word displacement,” Fida said. Her daughter added: “It’s shameful. We like our hometown.”
 Heba said she can’t forget a single day since 2011 — every day marked by violence and loss. She worried about her children, a 3- and a 2-year-old, and can’t let them go outside because of airstrikes.
 “We sleep in fear,” she said. “I don’t imagine there will be a future. I don’t imagine this will be settled with us alive.”

journalist: By SARAH EL DEEB , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: 'There is nothing now': Syrians in Idlib fear end nearing


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為遏止武漢肺炎疫情擴散，美國對入境旅客執行檢疫作業，旅客在若干主要機場大排長龍，等候龜速進行的檢疫程序，促使聯邦官員部署更多人力，總統川普也呼籲大家耐心等待。

川普今天下午推文說：「抱歉，打斷並延誤了通關流程。我們正快馬加鞭落實相關作業，但保持警戒和謹慎仍非常重要。」

路透社報導，川普推文說，當局正在進行「非常精確」的醫學檢驗，強調安全是首要之務。

川普這番言論呼應了國土安全部和海關與邊境保護局官員的話。他們承認，新的機場檢疫政策延誤通關流程，但有必要保護美國人民不受病毒侵害。俗稱武漢肺炎的 2019 冠狀病毒疾病（COVID- 19 ）疫情已在全球迅速蔓延。

川普政府上週對歐洲申根區 26 國實施入境管制，昨天又將禁令擴大至英國和愛爾蘭。美國公民和永久居民仍可返國，但需從特定機場入境。

海關與邊境保護局代理局長摩根（Mark Morgan）說，他們正在努力調整應對之道，也承認入境旅客經歷了令人難以接受的長時間等候。

國土安全部代理部長沃爾夫（Chad Wolf）說，他知道現場情況非常緊繃。沃爾夫推文說：「我們將增加人力，但美國大眾的健康和安全是首要之務。」

不過，也不是所有美國主要機場都受到影響。今天下午抵達芝加哥歐海爾國際機場（O’Hare International Airport）的旅客就說，他們並沒有在人龍中苦候許久。

但推特用戶貝爾（Sophie Bair）就沒這麼幸運了，她昨天在同一座機場經歷了混亂的一晚。貝爾上傳的影片可見大批旅客滯留機場，還說她已經等了 4 小時。

她寫道：「照片甚至無法捕捉現場規模。我們必須分 3 個階段排隊等待。」

有些旅客擔心，在大批人潮中長時間等待，恐增加染病風險。美國目前已有 3200 多起確診病例，至少 62 人病故。

推特用戶巴奈特（Jeffrey Barnett）說：「目前得等上 3 個多小時。咳嗽和噴嚏聲…。」根據巴奈特Po出的照片，昨晚在德州達拉斯─沃斯堡國際機場（Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport），旅客並肩等候。

法新社報導，川普建議民眾避免非必要旅行，還說官員考慮針對國內實施旅行限制。

川普在記者會上說：「如果沒有旅行的必要，就不要旅行。」「我們希望讓這起事件落幕，不願見到許多人染上病疫。」

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 愛爾蘭 英國 美國

events: 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

title: 美機場檢疫龜速旅客怨聲連連 川普：耐心等


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台北股市今天開低走低，收盤跌 411.1 點，為 9717.77 點，跌幅 4.06%，成交金額新台幣 2093.79 億元。

加權指數開盤為 10069.42 點，盤中最高 10130.8 點，最低 9717.77 點；不含金融股指數 8176.26 點，跌 343.3 點。

八大類股漲跌幅：泥窯股跌 3.28 %、食品股跌 2.67 %、塑化股跌 3.13 %、紡織股跌 2.84 %、機電股跌 4.42 %、造紙股跌 2.51 %、營建股跌 1.89 %、金融股跌 4.23 %。

委買張數 1394 萬 740 張，委賣張數 929 萬 8755 張，成交張數 759 萬 5203 張。

收盤時上漲 119 家，下跌 803 家，持平 32 家。

成交量前 5 名個股為富邦 VIX、元大台灣 50 反 1 、元大S&P原油正 2 、元大滬深 300 正 2 、群創。

漲幅前 5 名個股為富邦 VIX 估、富邦 VIX、元大美債 20 正 2 、國泰 20 年美債正 2 估、國泰 20 年美債正 2 。

跌幅前 5 名個股為街口布蘭特油正 2 、富邦印度正 2 估、鋐寶科技、牧德、玉晶光。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 台灣 印度

title: 台股大跌411.1點 失守萬點關卡


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高雄市完成比例尺 3 千分之一液化潛勢圖的建置，並公告土壤液化潛勢區供民眾查詢。資料顯示局部臨海區等呈高潛勢的紅色，市府呼籲勿恐慌，專家建議地盤改良或補強可降低風險。

高市府工務局今天公告中級土壤液化潛勢圖資相關資料，提供市民透過網路查詢自家住宅或環境是否位於液化潛勢區域，並可提供建築及規劃參考。

資料顯示，臨海的茄萣、彌陀、旗津、小港及鹽埕區有局部地區為紅色呈現，即代表可能發生液化現象的程度；至於山區，多為綠色呈現。

高雄市工務局長吳明昌受訪指出，土壤液化潛勢圖可以透過門牌地址、道路交叉路口、地段地號、座標輸入方式查察。

他說，土壤液化潛勢圖所呈現的潛勢情形是依據建築法規定，以鑽探地層資料加上地下水位資料，計算設計地震狀況下，各區域可能發生的液化輕重程度。

液化潛勢分為 3 個潛勢等級，低潛勢綠色代表地基可能無影響或者輕微影響、中潛勢黃色代表地基可能有輕微至中度影響、高潛勢紅色代表地基可能有中度至嚴重影響。

工務局表示，去年針對人口、產業與交通分布密度較高的楠梓等 18 個行政區完成第一期計畫後，第二期計畫補充永安、彌陀等沿海與山區 20 個行政區域的土壤液化潛勢評估，並蒐集相關工程建設、房屋建築地質鑽探資料 2 萬多筆，鑽探補充進行 558 孔深度達 30 公尺調查。

吳明昌指出，土壤液化潛勢是在地震力、砂性土壤及地下水位等諸多因素綜合研判可能發生液化現象的嚴重程度，但並不表示地震時一定會發生土壤液化現象，呼籲民眾勿過於恐慌，可以透過地盤改良工法或適當的基礎設計都可以減少土壤液化可能導致的災害風險。

高雄市土壤液化潛勢分析第二期計畫總顧問技師呂彥龍接受中央社記者電話採訪指出，相關資訊提供選地、土地開發及老屋重建或耐震補強的參考，例如建築物施做連續壁可以強化建築安全性，另外在碼頭等開發上另有其它工法等。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

taiwan-subdivisions: 永安 高雄市 楠梓 小港 鹽埕區 茄萣 彌陀 旗津

title: 高市臨海局部土壤液化高潛勢 專家指可改良補強


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「環球音樂」董事長兼執行長葛蘭吉據傳感染 2019 冠狀病毒疾病（COVID- 19 ，武漢肺炎），目前正在加州洛杉磯的UCLA雷根醫學中心接受治療。

葛蘭吉（Lucian Grainge）和環球音樂集團（Universal Music Group）公關婉拒置評。

多位消息人士向音樂雜誌「告示牌」（Billboard）和多媒體娛樂新聞「好萊塢報導」（The Hollywood Reporter）證實，葛蘭吉目前在UCLA雷根醫學中心（Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center）接受治療。

目前還不清楚葛蘭吉是如何染病，但他 2 月 29 日曾在加州拉昆塔（La Quinta）的麥迪遜俱樂部（Madison Club）慶祝 60 歲大壽，到場祝壽的除了其他樂壇主管，還包括蘋果公司執行長庫克（Tim Cook）。

今天稍早才剛傳出，曾在「 007 量子危機」飾演龐德女郎的法國籍影星歐嘉柯瑞蘭蔻（Olga Kurylenko）確診；而美國國寶級影星湯姆漢克斯（Tom Hanks） 12 日也透過IG宣布自己和妻子雙雙確診。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 法國 美國

events: 武漢肺炎 冠狀病毒

title: 武漢肺炎襲美演藝圈 環球音樂執行長傳確診住院


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科技部長陳良基今天在第 11 次全國科技會議先期報告記者會上表示，科技研究也像防疫一樣「超前部署」，今年各部會已投入新台幣 30 億元在防疫，科技部也培植 40 多個實驗室、 100 多個團隊進行疫苗研發、病毒快篩等研究。

依據科學技術基本法，政府每 4 年彙整各界意見，並經全國科學技術會議討論後，作為日後推動科技政策的依據。

為因應將於今年第 3 季舉辦的「第 11 次全國科學技術會議」，科技部於 2019 年辦理超過 25 場全國科技發展策略規劃會議，歸納人才培育、基礎科研、產業經濟、組織制度與未來挑戰 5 大面向。共計逾 400 人參與，產業人士達 140 人，包括台積電創辦人張忠謀、中研院院長廖俊智、和碩董事長童子賢都出席參與。

科技部長陳良基致詞時表示，此次會議有 3 特點，包括不受限於領域藩籬或部會職掌，第 2 是邀請跨界共識，不只官方的人，也邀請多位業界人士參與，第 3 是廣納 45 歲以下青壯世代專家學者的意見。

陳良基指出，科技研究除了基礎研究與應用研究外，也要「超前布署」，即時呼應社會需求。像是今年各部會已投入新台幣 30 億元在防疫，科技部也培植 40 多個實驗室、 100 多個團隊進行疫苗研發、病毒快篩等研究。台灣是全球第 4 個把武漢肺炎病毒株分離出來的國家，也是由科技部補助的台大團隊達成。

往年各界多關注研究議題，但因應少子化浪潮，與會者這次都提到「改善育才環境」的迫切性。由於接下來大學與研究生人數每年將少 1 萬人，業界擔憂科研人才不足，因此，盼政府能增進獎才制度彈性，不僅要提升國內人才能力，也盼吸引國際優秀人才，塑造友善留台環境。

此外，由於資源有限，台灣 1 年科技預算約新台幣 1157 億元，基礎研究與應用研究約 3 比 7 ，台灣基礎研究占總研發經費比例約 7.3 %，低於美國、南韓、日本與以色列等國，相對偏低。故與會者建議，政府應聚焦優勢領域投注資源。

童子賢則透過事前錄製影片談及對科技會議的期許，他認為台灣在新興網路金融、電子商務平台等大多引賴進口，缺乏自給自足能力，但強調台灣具備良好科技創新環境，應鼓勵軟體數位內容等新興服務業的人才培育。

科技部規劃將以「創造人才價值 永續國家發展」目標為基礎，以「人才、價值、永續」為主題，提出第 11 次全國科學技術會議的討論議題架構。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

countries: 美國 日本 以色列 台灣

people: 陳良基 張忠謀

things: 防疫 經濟

title: 陳良基：科研也要超前部署 培育實驗室投入防疫


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勞動部今天公布最新減班休息統計，實施事業單位共計 109 家，實施人數 3835 人。勞動部表示，受到疫情影響，中國尚未復工、來台觀光客減少，都是造成實施人數增加的原因。

勞動部公布截至 2020 年 3 月 15 日止勞工行政主管機關通報因應景氣影響勞雇雙方協商減少工時（減班休息）最新統計，實施事業單位共計 109 家，實施人數 3835 人。

上期（2020 年 2 月 29 日）家數計 41 家，實施人數 1662 人。上期事業單位中，目前停止實施者計 9 家，另新增 77 家，累計新增 68 家，實施人數新增 2173 人。

本期多數事業單位的實施人數在 50 人以下，實施期間多數未超過 3 個月，實施方式多為每月休 5 日至 8 日。

勞動部勞動條件及就業平等司副司長黃維琛表示，這次受到疫情衝擊，住宿、餐飲、批發零售、旅行業等，都是受影響較大的產業，光是住宿餐飲合計就約 1000 餘人，但實施人數最高的仍是金屬機電業，達 1491 人。

據統計，本次減班休息實施家數較多的，以批發零售 26 家較為顯著，其他如旅行業 12 家、住宿業 15 家、餐飲業 11 家、金屬機電業 14 家；由於金屬機電較多大廠，因此人數較多，其他產業別雖然家數多，但相對實施人數較少。

其中金屬機電業中大多以製作工具機或工具機零組件為主，黃維琛說，有部分影響來自於中國大陸部分地區仍未復工，造成產業鏈不能串連；另外觀光、餐飲、旅行業也因觀光客減少，造成減班休息實施家數增加。

黃維琛指出，若勞資雙方有感受到景氣壓力，經協商後還是要通報目的事業主管機關，都會協助，勞動部也才能提供資源，如安心就業計畫預計 3 月下旬開始補助減班休息的勞工，就會從現在實施的家數、人數去統計資料。

勞動部長許銘春日前於立法院備詢時表示，接下來會每週公布無薪假人數。黃維琛表示，會朝這個方向執行，目前系統上需要做調整，包括統計項目、縣市政府回報等資訊；另外立法委員也提案要將分類分細一點，如縣市分布、行業分類，都會遵照辦理。

勞動部於每月月中、月底公布事業單位減班休息統計，前一次實施家數達 100 家要回溯到 2011 年 12 月，當月 2 期統計分別達 100 家與 109 家，實施人數分別為 9571 人、 1 萬 2487 人。勞動部表示，當年主因是歐債危機所導致。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

title: 疫情衝擊 減班休息達3835人


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countries: 臺灣 日本

taiwan-subdivisions: 北投區 臺北市 觀音

title: 臺灣觀光雙年曆 節慶活動