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Foxconn Technology Group's Shenzhen plant.
 Foxconn Technology Group's Shenzhen plant.
 (AP photo)

 Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group has launched a recruitment drive, offering a monthly salary of no less than NT$45,000 (US$1,485) to university graduates.

For those with a master's degree, the starting pay will be NT$52,000 per month at the minimum, while doctorate degree holders will earn at least NT$60,000 a month, Foxconn announced in a statement issued earlier this week. The latest recruitment drive is aimed at attracting talent mainly in the core technology areas of artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and next generation mobile communications, and also in the emerging industries of electric cars, digital healthcare, and robotics, the company said.

In addition, the company said, it will offer comprehensive training in technology, management, and general knowledge to help its new employees build successful careers. For example, all employees hired in the latest round of recruitment will be trained to become mid-range management staff in the future, said Foxconn.

It urged interested persons to apply via its website and said interviews of selected applicants will also be conducted online. Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, has been working to expand into the development of software and to integrate that with its hardware manufacturing proficiency.

Meanwhile, with the global economy reeling under the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, two foreign brokerages have cut their target prices on shares of Foxconn, citing concerns over the company's shipments of iPhones, which it assembles. A Hong Kong-based securities house said the coronavirus pandemic could force Apple Inc. to postpone the launch of its new iPhones amid the economic uncertainty, which has slowed demand for tech gadgets.

If Apple does not release its next- generation of iPhones in September as it usually does, Foxconn shipments are likely to drop in the second half of the year, the brokerage said in recent research note. Therefore, the brokerage said, it was lowering its target price on Foxconn shares from NT$100 to NT$75 and downgrading its recommendation from "buy" to "hold."

Apple accounts for about 40 percent of Foxconn's total sales, to a market estimate. A Japanese brokerage also cut its target price on Foxconn from NT$92 to NT$82, but maintained its "overweight" rating of the stock, saying that despite the impact of the pandemic, it remained upbeat about the company's efforts to upgrade its technologies and extend its reach to emerging industries.

Nonetheless, the Japanese brokerage lowered its forecasts for Foxconn's earnings per share for 2020 and 2021 by 10.4 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively, to NT$7.78 and NT$9.7, citing the pandemic. On Wednesday, Foxconn's shares rose 0.14 percent to end at NT$70.50 on the Taiwan Stock Exchange before the market closed for the four-day Tomb Sweeping Festival.

journalist: By Central News Agency

title: Foxconn offering university graduates starting pay of NT$45,000


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Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung at a CECC news conference
 Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung at a CECC news conference
 (CNA photo)

 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan confirmed nine people as new Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) cases Friday (April 3), taking the total for the country up to 348.

The imported cases numbered seven in all, while two new cases were local transmissions, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said at its daily news conference. The total also included five deaths and 50 patients who had returned home after treatment at hospitals.

The local transmissions were both women, one in her 60s and one in her 40s. No. 343 had not traveled overseas, but her husband returned from the United States on March 17.

No. 347 had not any recorded travel history either, but she had been in contact with patient No. 336, one of the new cases announced Thursday (April 2).

The imported cases were five women and two men, ranging in age from more than 20 to more than 60. The patients had traveled to a variety of countries, namely the U.S., Great Britain, Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic and Thailand. They had entered Taiwan between March 14 and April 1, according to the CECC.

No. 341 was the wife of No. 182 and the sixth member of a tour group which visited Austria and the Czech Republic to be confirmed with the virus. The CECC added that No. 344 was the wife of No. 182 and the fifth member of a group of independent travelers who had been touring the U.S. together.

Of the 348 infections, a total of 298 had been imported from overseas, with 50 domestic transmissions. On Taiwan’s main island, only the relatively sparsely populated east coast counties of Hualien and Taitung still had not registered any coronavirus cases as of Thursday (April 2).

journalist: By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

title: Taiwan announces 9 new coronavirus cases for a total of 348


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In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a woman holding a child walks away from the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hub...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a woman holding a child walks away from the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man disembarks from a bus at an expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei provinc...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man disembarks from a bus at an expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man assists a woman with her belongings as they cross the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in cen...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man assists a woman with her belongings as they cross the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a woman walks from the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a woman walks from the expressway gate at the border of Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man and woman carry eggs as they cross the expressway gate at the border into Wuhan city in central China's ...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man and woman carry eggs as they cross the expressway gate at the border into Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man crosses the expressway gate at the border into Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, a man crosses the expressway gate at the border into Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, residents cross the expressway gate at the border into Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions ...
 In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, photo, residents cross the expressway gate at the border into Wuhan city in central China's Hubei province. Millions of Chinese workers are streaming back to factories, shops and offices but many still face anti-coronavirus controls that add to their financial losses and aggravation. In Wuhan police require a health check and documents from employers for returning workers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

 WUHAN, China (AP) — After two months in locked-down Wuhan, Wei Lei was eager to get back to work on a railway construction site. Instead, the 22-year-old found himself stranded at an expressway toll plaza where police decided who was allowed in and out of the city where the coronavirus pandemic started.
 The authorities wanted a letter from his bosses saying he was needed, but Wei said he didn't have one because employees who would prepare it had yet to return to work.
 "It was boring staying at home and I was embarrassed to be fed by my parents,” Wei said Thursday.
 Chinese leaders are trying to revive the economy, but local officials under orders to prevent new infections are enforcing disease checks and other controls that add to financial losses and aggravation for millions of workers.
 Beijing told companies to keep paying employees and promised loans and other aid. But millions of migrants, day laborers and others without regular jobs need to return to work before they can start getting paid after two idle months.
 More than 100 million workers who visited their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday were stranded after travel controls imposed Jan. 23 on Wuhan to fight the virus were extended to cover most of China. The holiday was prolonged to keep factories and offices closed and the public at home.
 Even after the ruling Communist Party reversed course in early March and started allowing some businesses to reopen, travel curbs remained in place in many areas, keeping workers away from their jobs.
 Chinese officials say state-dominated industries such as steel are almost back to normal production. But many private employers — the sector that generates most of China’s jobs and wealth — say they are operating at a fraction of normal levels in part because employees haven’t come back to work.
 The People’s Daily newspaper reported March 20 that about 100 million migrant workers, or about 80% of those who returned to their hometowns for the holiday, were back at work. No official figures for possible job losses have been reported.
 One of the bleakest estimates came from Liu Chenjie, an economic commentator and chairman of Upright Capital, a hedge fund. He said in comments reported by the website Sina.com that as many as 200 million people might have lost jobs or were underemployed due to the virus.
 Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in Hubei province, is the industrial and transportation hub of central China.
 At the Wuhan East toll plaza where Wei waited, police in gloves and face masks were turning away vehicles without Wuhan plates.
 Wearing masks and carrying children, returnees showed a green “health code” on a smartphone app that indicates they are symptom-free. Occupants of cars waiting inside the barrier to pick up returnees were checked for fever by police.
 Cai Luo, a saleswoman for an internet company in Wuhan, was returning from her nearby hometown of Huanggang.
 “I had to show my green code and be checked at every stop on the way back," said Cai, 24. "I felt panic because I had never come across before.”
 Huanggang also was quarantined but controls there and on other cities were lifted last month.
 “We weren't allowed to walk out of our home, let alone shopping at a supermarket," Cai said. "They knew I was back from Wuhan so they put stricter grounding on me.”
 Cai said she worked from home but her parents couldn't and had no income.
 “It is hard for ordinary families to have no income for two months,” she said.
 The final controls on Wuhan, which had three-fourths of China’s virus deaths, last through April 8.
 Returnees who were allowed into Wuhan were picked up by their employers or squeezed into private cars. Divers earned extra cash as informal taxis on a day when many businesses had yet to reopen.
 Despite easing controls that shut down most of China’s air, rail and bus service, authorities still require fever checks at public buildings nationwide and try to keep track of where individual travelers go.
 Wei said he worked on a construction site in Huangmei County on the boundary between Hubei and neighboring Jiangxi province. He showed a reporter a copy of a letter given to a coworker by their employer bearing the red approval seals of a village committee and local government.
 After two hours at the roadblock, Wei said he was “not hopeful” he could get his own approval letter.
 “I prepared documents the day before yesterday, but today something changed and the documents didn’t work anymore," he said. “I have to go back to do it again.”
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 McDonald reported from Beijng. AP producer Olivia Zhang in Wuhan and researcher Yu Bing in Beijing contributed.

journalist: By NG HAN GUAN and JOE McDONALD , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Chinese struggle to return to work as virus controls ease


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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen
 Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen
 (CNA photo)

 The United States National Security Council (NSC) on Thursday thanked Taiwan for its support in the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, in response to President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) announcement the previous day that Taiwan would donate 2 million surgical face masks to the U.S.

"We thank the people of Taiwan for their generous support and collaboration as we continue our fight against the coronavirus," the presidential advisory body tweeted.

The message was linked to a Reuters news story that detailed Taiwan's plan to spend an estimated NT$1.05 trillion (US$35 billion) to battle the coronavirus and to donate 10 million masks to countries seriously affected by the pandemic. The donation, which Tsai announced Wednesday (4/1), will allocate 2 million surgical masks to the U.S., 1 million to Taiwan's diplomatic allies, and 7 million to Europe, with 5.6 million going to nine EU member states and the remainder to the UK and Switzerland.

According to Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), 100,000 masks per week will also be shipped to the U.S. under a bilateral epidemic prevention cooperation agreement. The donation pledges followed a large-scale effort in Taiwan to increase its mask production, which has grown from 3.2 million per day in early February to around 13 million at present.

The U.S. has been hard hit by the virus in recent weeks, with nearly a quarter of a million cases and 5,911 deaths reported as of Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

title: US National Security Council thanks Taiwan for pledged mask donations


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An Impoverished Indians gives his finger print on a biometric machine after purchasing food ration in Prayagraj, India, Thursday, April 2, 2020. India...
 An Impoverished Indians gives his finger print on a biometric machine after purchasing food ration in Prayagraj, India, Thursday, April 2, 2020. India is adding more resources to tackle its increase in coronavirus cases by announcing that private hospitals may be requisitioned to help treat virus patients, and turning railway cars and a motor racing circuit into makeshift quarantine facilities. The steps were taken after a nationwide lockdown announced last week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to a mass exodus of migrant workers from cities to their villages, often on foot and without food and water, raising fears that the virus may have reached to the countryside, where health care facilities are limited. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

 A man wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus walks on the underpass in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 2, 2...
 A man wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus walks on the underpass in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 2, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

 Forest Gauthier, an emergency services medical assistant, walks through a tent set up outside the Emergency Department at the Harborview Medical Cente...
 Forest Gauthier, an emergency services medical assistant, walks through a tent set up outside the Emergency Department at the Harborview Medical Center before it opened for patients, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Seattle. The tent, which was recently put in place, is used to examine walk-up and other patients who arrive at the emergency room with respiratory symptoms possibly related to the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

 President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White H...
 President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in Washington, as White House adviser Jared Kushner listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

 The Empire State building is seen in the distance from an empty street, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavi...
 The Empire State building is seen in the distance from an empty street, Thursday, April 2, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

 A general view a temporary field hospital set at Ifema convention and exhibition of in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The new coronavirus cau...
 A general view a temporary field hospital set at Ifema convention and exhibition of in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

 A staffer delivers a medical oxygen tank to coronavirus patients who are being treated at home, in Bergamo, one of the areas worst affected by the vir...
 A staffer delivers a medical oxygen tank to coronavirus patients who are being treated at home, in Bergamo, one of the areas worst affected by the virus, Northern Italy, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

 National Health Service staff wait in their cars to take a coronavirus test at a drive through centre in north London, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The n...
 National Health Service staff wait in their cars to take a coronavirus test at a drive through centre in north London, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

 Medical personnel remove their personal protective equipment after delivering a bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to refrigerated contai...
 Medical personnel remove their personal protective equipment after delivering a bodies from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to refrigerated containers parked outside, Thursday, April 2, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As coronavirus hot spots and death tolls flared around the U.S., the nation's biggest city was the hardest hit of the all, with bodies loaded onto refrigerated morgue trucks by gurney and forklift outside overwhelmed hospitals, in full view of passing motorists. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

 The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
 TOP OF THE HOUR:
 — Asian Development Bank forecasts pandemic will cost world economy as much as $4.1 trillion
 — India's PM urges citizens to light candles Sunday night to boost morale, spirit
 — South Korea says more than 27,000 people are under self-quarantine
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 MANILA, Philippines — The Asian Development Bank forecasts that the coronavirus pandemic will cost the world economy as much as $4.1 trillion, or nearly 5% of all economic activity.
 In an update Friday, the regional lender said growth in developing Asia would likely fall to 2.2% in 2020 from 5.2% last year. The Manila, Philippines-based bank said that Southeast Asia, a market of more than 600 million that has been rapidly growing, will likely log 1% growth this year.
 The report said China, the region’s biggest economy, saw double-digit contractions in business activity in January-February and will likely see growth fall to 2.3% this year from a three-decade low of 6.1% in 2019. China, which is trying to get its economy back on track after unprecedented shutdowns in Wuhan, where the virus was first reported, and other parts of the country could suffer losses amounting to up to $692 billion if containment efforts drag on. But the ADB estimated that growth would bounce back next year to more than 7%.
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 NEW DELHI — To bolster morale and spirit, India’s prime minister urges the country’s 1.3 billion people to switch off lights of their home for nine minutes Sunday night and light candles, lamps and even use mobile torches standing in their balconies.
 In a video message broadcast Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said such a gesture will dispel the darkness created by the coronavirus and show that people are together in their fight against the epidemic.
 He said social distancing was the only way to break the chain of coronavirus, which has so far claimed 53 lives in India with 1,860 positive cases.
 Modi ordered a three-week lockdown across the country on March 24 to stop a massive outbreak of coronavirus infections.
 On Friday, he acknowledged the hardships caused by the world’s biggest shutdown to millions of people who have been left jobless and forced tens of thousands of migrants workers to flee to their villages for food and shelter.
 Indian officials have repeatedly insisted there is no evidence yet of community spread, but have conducted relatively scant testing for the disease in a country where tens of millions live in dense urban areas with irregular access to clean water.
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 SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea says more than 27,000 people are under self-quarantine in the country after it strengthened border controls to slow coronavirus infections linked to international arrivals.
 Park Jong-hyun, an official from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, said Friday that 19,567 of those under self-quarantine have recently returned from overseas while another 7,499 were isolated after contacting virus carriers.
 South Korea has been enforcing 14-day quarantines on all passengers arriving from overseas since Wednesday, expanding measures that had already been applied to South Korean nationals and long-term stay foreigners coming from Europe and the United States.
 Health Ministry official Koh Deuk-young said 266 short-term visitors have so far been quarantined at designated facilities after the quarantines were expanded Wednesday.
 Authorities are isolating and testing passengers arriving with symptoms at airports while denying entry of anyone refusing to accept quarantines or download an app that requires users to report their daily health conditions and alerts officials when they leave their homes or facilities.
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 Follow AP news coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak

journalist: By The Associated Press, Associated Press

title: The Latest: Bank says virus could cost world $4.1 trillion


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「口罩實名制2.0」第三波預購於1日開跑，行政院政務委員唐鳳今(3)日透露，將於4月下旬推出「取口罩兼續訂下一輪」的新功能，並放上參加封測的影片，實測結果顯示，整個續訂流程花費時間僅55秒。

唐鳳今在臉書發文表示，從月初開始，全國一萬多間超商的店員、健保署與關貿公司的同仁，都在緊鑼密鼓進行封測，確保新功能正式推出的時候，大家都會感到更便利、更穩定。

他預告，「口罩實名制 2.0」即將於 4 月下旬推出「取口罩兼續訂下一輪」的新功能。作為技術團隊一份子的唐鳳指出，他昨天也參加了封測，以下就跟大家分享「店員視角」下的封測流程，並附上影片。

影片中可見，以健保卡作為身分認證方式，之後輸入取貨序號10碼、身分證後4碼，接著確認預訂下期口罩，就會印出取貨單，下一步驟按下續訂按鈕，看到讀卡機位置再插入健保卡，當指示燈亮起，按下同意按鈕，會印出續訂紀錄單。總共花費時間僅55秒，不到1分鐘。

唐鳳也指出，為保護個資，事務機只會驗證身分證號和卡片是否有效，未開啟任何其他存取權限。

「口罩實名制2.0」第三波預購於1日開跑，行政院政務委員唐鳳今(3)日透露，將於4月下旬推出「取口罩兼續訂下一輪」的新功能，並放上參加封測的影片，實測結果顯示，整個續訂流程花費時間僅55秒。唐鳳今在臉書發文表示，從月初開始，全國一萬多間超商的店員、健保署與關貿公司的同仁，都在緊鑼密鼓進行封測，確保新功能正式推出的時候，大家都會感到更便利、更穩定。

journalist: 陳芳伶

title: (影)口罩實名制2.0再推續訂新功能！唐鳳實測流程僅花55秒 | 社會


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武漢肺炎全球確診數至今已突破100萬例，台灣曾被認為疫情可能是全球第2慘，不過台灣靠著完備的防疫工作，成功控制住這波疫情。民進黨立委王定宇今（3）日分享一則受中國施壓、印度媒體卻仍堅持播出的國際新聞，印度主播也直言「中國運用金錢與肌肉封鎖台灣，不讓台灣參與重要會議。」

王定宇在臉書分享一則來自印度的最新報導，這篇報導曾受中國駐印度大使館施壓、不讓它播出，印度媒體《WION》仍堅持播送。女主播帕琪．珊爾瑪（Palki Sharma）本月1日播報4分鐘台灣新聞，開頭就提到「台灣成功控制武漢肺炎疫情，世界各國將台灣當作典範」。

這名主播也表示，世界各國將台灣視為典範，但世界衛生組織（WHO）卻不這麼做，甚至不承認台灣，「原因在於中國運用金錢與肌肉封鎖台灣，不讓台灣參與重要會議」。

報導指出，在這次疫情中，台灣甚至沒有收到來自世界專家們給予的資訊，「但台灣卻早在去年12月就已經先行警告世界衛生組織」。當時台灣指出，新型冠狀病毒能夠人傳人，世衛卻忽視這項警告，台灣政府則對此表示，世衛偏好中國，對台灣「盲視」。

民進黨立委王定宇今（3）日分享一則受中國施壓、印度媒體卻仍堅持播出的國際新聞印度主播也直言「中國運用金錢與肌肉封鎖台灣，不讓台灣參與重要會議。」世界各國將台灣視為典範，但世界衛生組織（WHO）卻不這麼做，甚至不承認台灣

journalist: 周家豪

countries: 台灣 中國 印度

events: 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

title: (影) WHO不承認台灣！ 印媒批：中國運用金錢與肌肉封鎖台灣 | 國際


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中央流行疫情指揮中心今(3)日公布國內新增9例武漢肺炎病例(案340至348)，其中7例境外移入及2例本土。本土個案分別為60多歲女性(案343)及40多歲女性(案347)；其中案343近期無出國史，但其夫3月17日自美國返台；個案於3月20日出現咳嗽、流鼻水等症狀，曾於24日至28日期間多次就診，31日再度就醫即收治住院採檢，今日確診；相關接觸者持續調查中，以釐清感染源。

指揮中心表示，案347為昨(2)日公布之案336的接觸者，無出國史，曾於3月19日及27日與案336接觸過，24日發病，曾二度就診未緩解，31日再度就醫即收治住院採檢，今日確診；已掌握相關接觸者37人，其餘持續匡列中。

指揮中心指出，今日新增之7例境外移入個案為5女2男，年齡20多歲至60多歲，入境日介於3月14日至4月1日，發病日介於3月19日至30日，發病前活動地為美國、英國、丹麥、奧地利、捷克及泰國，出國目的多為就學或工作。

案341為案338之妻子，曾一同參加奧捷旅遊團，3月25日發病，今日確診；該旅遊團截至目前共計6人確診。

案344為案182之妻子，曾一同參加美國自助旅遊團；3月20日陪案182就醫時採檢陰性，30日出現發燒後收治住院採檢，今日確診；該旅遊團截至目前共計5人確診。

中央流行疫情指揮中心今(3)日公布國內新增9例武漢肺炎病例(案340至348)其中7例境外移入及2例本土。本土個案分別為60多歲女性(案343)及40多歲女性(案347

journalist: 謝佳真

countries: 英國 捷克 美國 丹麥 泰國 奧地利

title: 快訊》台新增9例確診！7例境外移入  2例本土其中1例為社區保全接觸者 | 社會


content_text: 昨天新增8例境外移入，2例本土案例，其中案336在北部社區擔任女保全，感染源不明尚在調查。中央流行疫情指揮中心今(3)日14:00召開記者會，說明疫情及防疫作為等事宜。

title: 直播現場》案336社區女保全本土感染源大追查！指揮中心14時說明最新狀況 | 社會


content_text:
昨日國道交通量創下清明連假首日新低。（高公局提供／陳祐誠傳真）

今是清明連假第2天，交通部高速公路局預估有5條易壅塞路段，不過整體路況順暢，高公局統計，昨日交通量已創下實施電子收費以來，清明連假首日新低。

高公局表示，昨日交通量約103百萬車公里，比原本預測的124百萬車公里還少了17％，創下2014年以來清明連假首日交通量最低紀錄。

高公局指出，受到疫情影響最大，今年出遊及掃墓沒那麼高，國道相對順暢，今日的車潮也可能比預期的晚2個小時出現。

中時 陳祐誠

title: 憂疫情 國道交通量昨創新低


content_text: 中央流行疫情指揮中心，今天又公布新增九起確診案例，其中7人是境外移入，兩例是本土，累計國內目前確診人數增加到348例，兩起本土案例都是女性，其中一名是先生最近才自美國返國，另一名則是昨天確診的保全員接觸者，至於保全員服務的社區，包括社區消毒、居民出國史、呼吸道病史、接觸史等都會做後續疫調釐清。

title: 今天新增九例確診  一本土案例是保全員接觸者