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印度武漢肺炎確診突破兩萬例，但確診病例成長翻倍的速度已由原先的3天、4天減緩為8天，疫情似乎有趨緩跡象。

根據印度各省通報統計，截至今天上午，2019冠狀病毒疾病（COVID-19，武漢肺炎）確診病例達到2萬80例，其中有645人死亡，3975人痊癒。

由於印度確診病例成長翻倍的速度，已從原先的3天、4天減緩為8天，印度斯坦時報（Hindustan Times）引述印度醫學研究委員會（ICMR）傳染病負責人甘嘉希德克爾（Raman Gangakhedkar）表示，確診病例成長翻倍的時間延長，表明印度確診病例已不太可能大幅增加了。

疫情3月2日開始陡增後，印度政府為求控制，3月25日起實施全國封鎖21天，初期篩檢比例偏低，在當局逐漸擴大篩檢後，確診數迅速成長，一度出現3天、4天就增加一倍，讓國際防疫專家對印度疫情感到憂慮。

不過，在印度政府擴大對可疑人群篩檢與追蹤後，疫情似乎出現緩和，根據衛生與家庭福利部統計，截至昨晚，已有23個省的61個縣市沒有新增病例。印度截至昨天還有170個疫情熱點，約占總人口的37%，面積的29%。

居印度人口第二的馬哈拉什特拉省（Maharashtra）目前確診達5218例，是全印度確診最多的省分，新增病例占印度昨天新增病例的1/3以上，成為印度疫情最嚴重的地區。

甘嘉希德克爾指出，醫療人員正設法為所有確診病患提供治療，並盡最大努力讓病例成長曲線變平。（中央社）

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events: 武漢肺炎 新冠肺炎 死亡 冠狀病毒 COVID-19

title: 印度武漢肺炎確診破兩萬例　但疫情似有趨緩│TVBS新聞網


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到夜市買宵夜，竟然被人刺傷！日前新北市板橋湳雅夜市傳出流血衝突，被害人腰部被刺一刀，幸好送醫沒有生命危險，警方不到一小時，在土城抓到犯案的孫姓男子，原來他不滿被害人催油門的聲音太大，加上又剛和女友吵架，才拿折疊刀傷人。

騎著機車看到仇家，19歲的孫姓男子車一丟，就開始往巷口走，他邊罵人邊動刀，鎖定的對象就是幾分鐘前和他發生行車糾紛的被害人。

記者韓上棆：「當時候被害人跟女朋友就在湳雅夜市的這裡等宵夜，而嫌犯他來了之後沒有多說什麼，隨即拿出折疊刀往被害人的右後腰猛刺，接著再騎機車跟朋友從這邊離開。」

案件發生地點就在板橋湳雅夜市的出口附近，做生意的店家和逛街民眾目擊這起衝突也嚇了一跳。知道犯案後不能留在現場，當時，嫌犯立刻騎車跟著朋友開始逃亡，警方獲報立刻協助傷者送醫，也擴大調閱監視器追查，孫姓嫌犯在夜市刺傷人後，不到一小時就在土城廣福街住家附近被逮。落網時，他手中拿著的折疊刀就是傷人的武器，犯案動機居然只是因為和女友吵架心情不好，把氣出在無辜男子的身上。

journalist: 記者 韓上棆 / 攝影 鄭勝為 報導

taiwan-subdivisions: 新北市 土城 板橋

title: 不滿催油門聲太大！　男夜市動刀遭警逮│TVBS新聞網


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受到國際油價崩跌影響，台股今天盤中一度大跌逾148點，在防疫概念股及電子股撐場下，尾盤指數翻紅，收復10300點；法人認為，市場信心仍維持正向，預期10日線下方支撐買盤將逐步回籠。

台股加權指數今天開低震盪，盤中最低來到10140.09點、跌逾148點，塑化股表現較弱勢；隨著台積電及大立光跌勢收斂、鴻海翻紅，帶動電子股反攻氣勢，指數終場收在10307.74點，上漲19.32點，漲幅0.19%，成交值新台幣1517.97億元。電子股漲0.26%，金融股跌0.08%。

蘋概股指標的鴻海開低走高，收在最高73.9元，上漲0.54%，成交量超過2.73萬張；台積電、大立光早盤下跌逾1%，午盤跌勢收斂，終場分別下跌0.34%、0.54%，收在294元、3680元。

防疫概念股獲資金追捧，3月營收創新高的口罩廠恆大今天收在漲停59.2元，成交量約1.54萬張；研發武漢肺炎（2019冠狀病毒疾病，COVID-19）檢測試劑的生技股亞諾法大漲5.09%，收在40.25元，成交量超過1.26萬張。

國泰證期分析，近期價漲量增、價跌量縮的多頭趨勢遭到破壞，指數後續整理時間恐拉長，但指數拉回時，中小型族群仍維持相對抗跌格局，顯示市場信心維持正向，將給予指數下檔支撐，預期10日線約10331點下方支撐買盤將逐步回籠。（中央社）

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companies: LINE 台積電

events: 武漢肺炎 COVID-19 冠狀病毒

things: 防疫 油價

title: 電子股翻紅　台股收復10300點│TVBS新聞網


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近年來，困擾消費者的有線電視斷訊風暴通常只聞樓梯響，但這次台北市的北都用戶5月21日起，恐怕真的看不到HBO等7頻道，代理商永鑫多次調處無果決心硬起來，NCC則表示境外頻道不在疫情徵用範圍。

因授權費談判破局，頻道代理商永鑫昨日已發函給北都，要求北都一個月內提出申請並完成頻道變更，這7個頻道分別是HBO、CINEMAX、FOX SPORTS、FOXSPORTS 2、CNN、CN卡通頻道、ANIMAX，若發生斷訊近10萬的北都訂戶將受到影響。

北都經營區在台北市各區里，根據國家通訊傳播委員會（NCC）去年第4季統計，北都用戶數為9萬4241戶。

北都表示，目前還沒收到函文，如果收到後會依照程序來處理，不願任何頻道下架問題影響大眾權益。

HBO等頻道的代理商永鑫對中央社記者表示，北都已積欠2年授權費用，若以MG10（行政戶數10%）來估算，2年已代墊了新台幣4、5000萬元，已被「白吃白喝了2年」，加上與北都調處多次無果，也讓永鑫失去耐心，決定「硬起來」，在商言商，讓這次斷訊「勢在必行」。

HBO與北都卡在授權費爭議，近一次調處中，永鑫代理商還是希望以MG10為基礎，市場若有更優惠條件將比照；北都則希望比照佳訊的條件，前2年MG10、後續以實際戶數打6或7折。

除了雙方條件存在落差外，永鑫更質疑佳訊與北都「系出同門」，且北都戶數短報遭罰，失去談判信任基礎，雙方僵局一時難解，據傳連NCC官員都覺得「多次協商無果，已沒再談的必要」。

這次讓永鑫下定決心還有另一個理由，因為放行北都以低價取得頻道，再去市場削價競爭，恐掀起其他業者要求降價的骨牌效應，導致市場體制加速崩解。

由於NCC先前數度「解除斷訊危機」，市場質疑永鑫「真的敢斷訊嗎？」但永鑫強調，「對的事情就要去做，希望尊重市場機制和使用者付費原則」；市場人士也期盼，這次斷訊真的斷得成，能讓有線電視長期的產業僵局重回秩序。

國家通訊傳播委員會（NCC）主任秘書蕭祈宏表示，現在是防疫的非常時期，協商期間會告訴業者不要那麼僵，希望盡量調處。雖然防疫期間的頻道徵用以境內頻道為主，頻道代理商永鑫旗下的7個頻道屬於境外頻道，不在徵用範圍，但還是希望不要走到斷訊這一步。

NCC平台事業管理處專門委員黃睿迪表示，依照「有線廣播電視法」規定，要由北都來申請變更頻道計畫，走完相關法律程序，才能變更頻道，包括在斷訊前5天，要在頻道跑馬燈讓觀眾知道頻道即將變更，避免傷害權益。如果任一方片面斷訊，NCC會蒐集相關事證，釐清責任歸屬。

依2月25日通過的「嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎防治及紓困振興特別條例」第10條規定，中央流行疫情指揮中心成立期間，廣播電視事業、衛星廣播電視事業因配合防疫需要而受指定播放防疫資訊、節目者，通訊傳播主管機關得視其受影響情形，放寬一定期間廣告時間。（中央社）

title: HBO代理商硬起來　斷訊北都恐勢在必行│TVBS新聞網


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有醫師透露，一名女子平時不喝飲料不吃甜食，身材中等，也沒有家族病史，沒想到年紀輕輕才28歲就患有糖尿病，糖化血色素達8.5％，讓他十分驚訝，後來仔細詢問才發現，原來這一切都是「工作」惹的禍。

家醫科醫師黃彗倫在節目「醫師好辣」表示，他曾收治一名28歲女病患，對方表示今年收到體檢報告，發現被診斷出患有糖尿病，糖化血色素8.5％，於是趕緊到醫院做進一步確認，「她就覺得很奇怪，自己這麼年輕會有糖尿病」。黃彗倫表示，當時他在門診隨機幫女子驗一下血糖，結果血糖值竟超過200mg/dL，讓他嚇了一跳。

黃彗倫說，女子的身材中等，體重沒有下滑跡象，本身沒有家族性糖尿病或不良生活習慣，也不愛喝飲料吃甜食，但近期上班卻覺得「很累、很累、很累」，不管睡了多久都沒辦法改善疲倦感，而且一般人感冒只要1到2星期就可痊癒，女子卻要1個月才會好，經詢問工作性質才知道，原來女子目前這份工作已經做了3年，平時皆需要輪值夜班。

「我就幫她抽血檢查，發現確診糖尿病，而且她是屬於第二型的，不是先天缺乏胰島素的那一種」，黃彗倫表示，後來他去翻文獻，發現近幾年有大型研究指出，女性輪夜班工作，罹患糖尿病的比率會很高，假設1個月輪3天夜班，那麼罹患糖尿病的風險就可能增加11％；一個月輪8個夜班，則可能增加36％以上的風險，「尤其是女生，就會很容易得到第二型的糖尿病」。

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journalist: 編輯 鄭餘蓉 報導

title: 28歲女不喝甜飲卻患糖尿病　一查才知是「工作」惹禍│TVBS新聞網


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圖:楊聰財醫師提醒，這波疫情險峻，目前仍看不到終點，民眾除了平時做好自我防護工作外，若察覺自己或家人出現身心不適症狀時，應儘早就醫檢查，避免更嚴重的身心災害。

記者孟憲玉/台北報導

今年四十八歲的阿龍（化名）是位資深國際導遊，去年買了人生中第一間房子，雖背負房貸，但因國際旅遊產業蓬勃，收入相當不錯，生活過得美滿穩定。沒料到今年突然爆發新冠病毒肺炎，各國陸續鎖國，國際旅遊受重創，公司最終不堪負荷結束收場。重大的環境改變讓阿龍頓時失去經濟收入來源，只好臨時轉行從事基層保全。

自從當了保全後，阿龍時常情緒低落、想法負面，覺得人生沒有目標，每日輾轉難眠無法入睡，脾氣也變得容易不耐煩，甚至為了小事與太太發生激烈口角，家人驚覺不對勁，趕緊求助身心診所治療，被告知出現「失志症候群」，並積極接受治療中。

開業身心診所院長楊聰財醫師表示，此波新冠病病毒疫情擴散影響，讓許多人措手不及，失業潮及商店倒閉潮接踵而來，讓許多人面臨人生及環境的重大轉變，並承受龐大身心壓力，若長期無法處理及調整這些壓力，就容易產生無力感、絕望感及孤立感，長期會合併失眠、恐慌、焦慮等身心症狀，嚴重者會對生活失去目標，失去人際社交動力，造成「失志症候群」上身。

楊聰財醫師說明，最近類似阿龍這樣的求診患者激增三成，經臨床問診後發現，患者大多具備自我要求高、把工作當生活重心及目標導向者，由於努力工作獲得了成就感，加上生活主要都在工作，發生疫情後突然沒了工作及收入，加上失去了生活目標，因此出現「失志症候群」症狀，家人及朋友千萬不要輕忽。

楊聰財醫師指出，針對「失志症侯群｣患者，治療上會採用藥物與非藥物合併治療。以藥物來改善患者憂鬱、失眠及焦慮等生理症狀，讓患者找回生活節奏，有體力維持社會功能，後續經由心理會談治療，穩定患者情緒及建立正向的認知，並教導正確的紓壓技巧，讓患者恢復睡眠、營養及運動等「三好」功能。 楊聰財醫師提醒，這波疫情險峻，目前仍看不到終點，民眾除了平時做好自我防護工作外，若察覺自己或家人出現身心不適症狀時，應儘早就醫檢查，避免造成更嚴重的身心災害。

【失志症候群自我評量表】（1）每天不容易入睡、失眠、（2）我覺得既難過又悲慘、（3）我對生活感到洩氣、（4）我覺得焦慮煩躁、（5）我覺得無望無助、（6）我對很多事情感到生氣、（7）我喪失生活中的角色跟目標。

若出現上述五項(或更多)者，可能有失志症候群症狀，應提高警覺，如有需要，應由專業精神科醫師協助評估診斷及治療。

(圖由楊聰財醫師提供)

journalist: 孟憲玉

title: 疫情失業潮  小心「失志症侯群」上身


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【島在現場 #北橫水管洞事件】

【島在現場 -北橫水管洞事件】 #生態與工程有好的發展 你或許走過北橫公路(台7線)，對這裡的生態風光念念不忘，日前北橫公路巴陵到四陵一段，邊坡排水孔遭到水泥封住，引起生態界熱議紛紛，這會造成什麼影響呢？ 台灣生態工法發展基金會研究員游崇瑋表示，這些看似不起眼的排水孔，因為陰暗又潮濕，提供了蛇、青蛙等動物的棲身之處。游崇瑋表示北橫公路生態豐富，是生態調查熱點，生物樣貌豐富度高。以蛇類來說，台灣本島有48種，光在北橫紀錄到的蛇類就超過七成。他更提及稀少的保育類動物金絲蛇，僅剩北橫路段能夠零星見到蹤影，可惜有時看到時都被路殺了，當排水孔遭到水泥密封，蛇類爬到馬路上的機率大增，更增添路殺風險。 生態保育人士因此紛紛在網路上流傳，希望公路單位手下留情，上週四(4/16)台灣生態工法基金會與路殺社、特生中心、公路總局養護處等單位現勘。北橫生態志工傅家賢帶領我們看到一處積水處，說明裡面莫氏樹蛙的蝌蚪正在游動，全身綠色的莫氏樹蛙是台灣特有種，繁殖季的時候，會利用排水孔產下卵泡，之後順勢就掉落積水處，邊坡植物飄落的落葉恰巧成為蝌蚪覓食和躲藏來源，形成小小的生態系。 公路總局養護處復興段長范又升表示早先邊坡工程設置的排水孔，在沒有作用後，為了養護方便，後續才用水泥封住洞口，沒有想到，排水孔已具有生態功能，在專家學者的建議下，已陸續在這幾天敲除水泥，繼續提供給小動物使用。 過去，道路工程一直欠缺生態思考，透過這次案例，工程單位和生態團體彼此良性溝通，在北橫公路上也就邊坡除草、落葉整理、引導廊道等相關措施做具體溝通，雙方也希望藉由討論，打造出合作模式，並有機會檢視北橫公路的其他路段可以做更多的生態規劃，讓北橫公路的生態與工程可以做到共贏。 撰文｜林燕如 攝影｜賴冠丞 #路殺 #排水孔 #排水洞 #生態工法 #邊坡整理 #北橫公路排水洞事件

由我們的島發佈於 2020年4月21日 星期二

在4月22日地球日的今天！我們為關心北橫水管洞事件的朋友們帶來個好消息！

上週4月16日這天，生態工法基金會的同仁們到了北橫，和公路總局養工處復興工務段范段長、工程師以及包商老闆，然後則是路殺社林德恩老師和一眾生態戰友碰面參詳。坐下以後，和我們原先想的、充滿肅殺之氣的現場 (？) 完全不同，范段長非常的從善如流，在昨天開會之前就已經請包商老闆開始進行排水孔的水泥移除、復原工作，非常令人讚賞！

但是有個問題大家都好奇：「當初是為了什麼而決定要用水泥封住排水孔？」范段長解釋，由於年代久遠，部分排水孔後方的空間逐漸被土石掩蓋且相當密實，大雨來時，水流大多沿山壁沖下形成地表逕流，其實不太會滲入土石之後再從排水孔流出，效益極低。此時，有些植物會在排水孔的開口處開始萌芽生長，長久下來可能會有些擋土牆的養護問題，因此在著眼於路段維護的思考邏輯之下，決定將排水孔以水泥封住，希望一勞永逸。

當然，我們以生態的角度發想，這些排水孔已經有了提供生物棲息躲藏的新功能。范段長純以養護角度發想，確實對於生態新功能有些遺漏，因此才請包商直接處理。但還好生態人常常到處亂跑，很快就發現了已經有部分水泥封孔的不尋常狀況出現，經由林德恩老師的反應，范段長立刻踩了緊急煞車，並且承諾盡快將所有排水孔全部恢復原狀，大氣的態度非常令人讚賞！

室內的意見交流分享會結束後，我們直接來到了野外現勘。范段長在現場聽取大家的意見以後，也承諾繼續協助處理一些盡量減少小動物上到路面的措施，並且搭配調整除草的時間和頻率，讓野生動物出沒最頻繁的季節內，可以盡可能的降低人為的干擾。

在眾多生態人最喜愛的聖地北橫，能有一位非常願意聽取生態專業意見、反應非常迅速的段長，真的是北橫的生態&生態人的福氣！

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現勘現場

排水孔除了排水外，也常有意想不到的驚奇唷！

路殺社的塑料圍籬實驗

為了感謝范段長以及眾多鄉親們的分享，我們以舉辦感謝季的心情... 發一張山神美圖來答謝大家關心囉！

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taiwan-subdivisions: 成功 復興

title: 【北橫公路水管洞事件→討取！】


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高雄市議會為避免發生社區群聚感染 讓市府專注防疫 以32票對2票 表決通過不召開第3次臨時會 (1部影片)

高雄市議會今(22)日舉行第3次臨時會，由於敦睦艦隊新冠肺炎疫情吃緊，為避免社區群聚感染風險，議員曾俊傑建議不召開臨時會，並視疫情和緩後舉行定期大會；議會經表決以32票同意不召開臨時會。副議長陸淑美會後表示，議會將於明(23)日召開程序委員會決定第3次定期大會日期。

議員曾俊傑會中指出，新冠肺炎疫情原本趨緩，但發生敦睦艦隊疫情，24萬通細胞簡訊發出，為避免發生社區群聚感染，並讓市府專注防疫，建議不召開臨時會，視疫情穩定後舉行定期大會，將臨時會之專案報告議題併入定期會議程中。

曾議員要求市府將市民與企業關切之防疫及疏困相關事項以網路直播或記者會方式，提供週知。

議員韓賜村則說，召開臨時會是由跨黨派28名議員連署提出，市民也有知道市府防疫措施的權益，難道防疫、市民權益及跨黨派議員連署都不重要嗎？如果不召開臨時會，市民將情何以堪？

朱信強議員建議先討論何時召開第3次定期大會，配合於地制法規定的6月底以前召開，並且不能忽視敦睦艦隊疫情的影響力；林于凱議員認為，中央紓困措施已經開始執行，有關市民紓困及企業貸款是最急迫的議題，如果在定期大會進行討論，恐緩不濟急，建議如期召開臨時會。

經討論後，因無法取得共識，主席陸淑美裁定進行表決，曾議員建議之不召開臨時會獲得32票支持，反對者2票。

副議長陸淑美在會後表示，議會將於明(23)日召開程序委員會議，決定第3次定期大會舉行日期及相關日程。

高雄市議會為避免發生社區群聚感染 讓市府專注防疫 以32票對2票 表決通過不召開第3次臨時會

journalist: 高丁丁

people: 陸淑美 朱信強 曾俊傑 韓賜村


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21日到期的紐約原油5月交割期貨價摜破0美元關卡，一路狂跌306%，最後竟以每桶負37.63美元作收。當全球產油國經濟皆飽受負油價牽連時，杜拜卻得利於1980年代發展至今的「後石油經濟」，不但經濟成長早與石油脫鉤，杜拜房市更吸納了周遭阿拉伯國家皇親貴族的避險投資量能，杜拜房地產交易量反而在這波疫情下逆勢成長。

杜拜後石油經濟，讓經濟成長與石油脫鉤的遠見

「後石油經濟」一詞，指的是杜拜靠石油致富之後，為了避免經濟過度仰賴石油出口而推展的多元化經濟。杜拜很早就有計畫性地扶植金融、貿易、運輸、觀光和房地產等非石化產業的經濟火車頭，當世界能源轉型浪潮興起，其他產油國開始尋找新的經濟來源時，杜拜早已擺脫對石油依賴，以前石油曾佔杜拜GDP的一半之多，但現在僅佔不到2%。

在過去幾年油價動盪過程中，杜拜經濟並未受到影響，反而逆勢蓬勃發展。這一事實可以從相關數據中得到印證。歷史上中東公司的股價會隨著原油價格上漲和下跌，但自2003年之後，杜拜房地產股價與油價之間的相關性便從0.7下降到0.3。

2009至2012年間油價翻倍，杜拜股市上漲14%、房地產公司上漲 48%。然而自2013年以來，油價下跌37%，杜拜股市卻逆勢上漲155%、房地產公司上漲 135%。杜拜股票指數（DFMGI）由36家公司組成，自2003年以來，構成該指數的房地產和建築等7家公司的總回報率高達789%，超過波斯灣所有國家。

根據阿拉伯商業週刊（Arabian Business）報導，杜拜仰賴房地產、旅遊業與運輸業三大支柱，在阿拉伯聯合大公國（阿聯酋）7個酋長國當中，杜拜是經濟成長速度最快的國家。

避險資金湧入，杜拜房市逆勢起飛

油價大幅下跌對中東其他產油國的負面影響是非常大的，像是科威特、卡達與沙烏地阿拉伯等國家，九成以上GDP倚賴石油，這些國家的經濟主要靠主政者與其裙帶家族利益共生。這次新冠疫情與負油價的衝擊，讓中東地區許多與主政者親近的貴族大戶開始擔心資產縮水，卻又不敢貿然將資產轉移至西方國家，於是紛紛前往杜拜投資房地產。

再加上歐美地區海外避險資金的湧入，杜拜房市在這波疫情當中逆勢起飛。根據阿聯酋最大房地產網站Property Finder的最新數據，杜拜在2020年第一季度共有10,243筆房地產交易，和去年同期相比增長了9.94%。這是杜拜房地產自2017年以來第一季度的最大銷售量…（繼續閱讀）

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杜拜房地產Q1銷售量成長近10%！成海外投資人避險窪地

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journalist: 陳永朋

countries: 卡達 科威特 阿聯 沙烏地阿拉伯

things: 油價 經濟

title: 負油價黑天鵝盤旋！杜拜成全球資金避風港


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▲（CNEWS資料照/記者陳鈞凱攝）

匯流新聞網記者陳鈞凱/台北報導

儘管敦睦艦隊磐石艦引爆防疫破口，最新已經有28人確診，但中央流行疫情指揮中心指揮官陳時中今（22）日也宣布有好消息，國內已經10天沒有本土個案傳出，且先前引發社會高度關注的「毒班機」CI011班機以及首起酒店女公關案379兩案，雙雙監測期滿，並無發現陽性個案，宣布這兩案均予以結案。

指揮中心統計，截至目前國內累計426例確診（今日新增案426），分別為343例境外移入，55例本土病例及28例敦睦遠訓支隊。確診個案中6人死亡，236人解除隔離，其餘持續住院隔離中。

陳時中表示，3月30日自美國紐約入境的CI011班機一共有12例確診個案，該班機除確診個案外，其他乘客及機組員共328人檢驗結果均為陰性，且個案相關接觸者亦已監測期滿，無發現陽性個案。

另外，國內案379（本土病例）的相關接觸者共123人截至昨日亦皆已監測期滿，無發現陽性個案；陳時中強調，以上兩案正式結案。

至於昨晚返台的第4班「類包機」共229人，中央流行疫情指揮中心醫療應變組副組長石崇良說，機場篩檢過程中雖有一人輕微發燒37.3度，且經防疫醫師仔細詢問，還有鼻塞、流鼻水症狀，因此為安全起見後送就醫，所幸採檢結果是陰性。目前其餘旅客分別送往2處集中檢疫所將進行集中檢疫14天，預計5月5日解隔離，目前其餘228人完成採檢。

照片來源：CNEWS資料照/記者陳鈞凱攝

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【匯流筆陣】
 CNEWS歡迎各界投書，來稿請寄至cnewscom2016@gmail.com，並請附上真實姓名、聯絡方式與職業身份簡介。
 CNEWS匯流新聞網：https://cnews.com.tw

【文章轉載請註明出處】

title: 結案！「毒班機」採檢全陰性 「酒店女公關」接觸監測期滿無人發病


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結案！「毒班機」採檢全陰性 「酒店女公關」接觸監測期滿無人發病 ▲（CNEWS資料照/記者陳鈞凱攝） 匯流新聞網記者陳鈞凱/台北報導 儘管敦睦艦隊磐石艦引爆防疫破口，最新已經有28人確診，但中央流行疫情指揮中心指揮官陳時中今（22）日也宣布有好消息，國內已經10天沒有本土個案傳出，且先前引發社會高度關注的「毒班機」CI011班機以及首起酒店女公關案379兩案，雙雙監測期滿，並無發現陽性個案，宣布這兩案均予以結案。 指揮中…

2020-04-22 陳 鈞凱女公關 毒班機 結案

title: 結案！「毒班機」採檢全陰性 「酒店女公關」接觸監測期滿無人發病


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▲（CNEWS資料照/記者陳鈞凱攝）

匯流新聞網記者陳鈞凱/台北報導

磐石艦群聚確診再添1人！中央流行疫情指揮中心今（22）日公布國內新增1例COVID-19病例，為20多歲男性，於磐石艦實習，成為磐石艦第28個確診個案，先前一採雖呈陰性，但隨後出現鼻塞、嗅味覺異常狀況，經二採陽性。

中央流行疫情指揮中心指揮官陳時中表示，今日新增案426是於3月23日起出現發燒、咳嗽、鼻塞、味覺喪失情形，經服藥後症狀改善並恢復，4月18日至集中檢疫所隔離採檢，一採結果為陰性，後續又出現鼻塞、嗅味覺異常狀況，19日由衛生單位安排就醫並二次採檢，今日確診。

陳時中指出，磐石艦群聚事件截至目前已經有28人確診，衛生單位現已掌握接觸者共692人，其中446人為居家隔離對象，246人為自主健康管理對象。指揮中心將持續針對個案比較重要的公共場所活動足跡進行調查，並一一公布上網（網址：https://bit.ly/2xyUgs3），再次提醒民眾若曾於相關時段及地點活動，應自主健康管理14天，外出時請佩戴口罩，若有不適，請撥打1922防疫專線，就醫時主動告知活動暴露史。

照片來源：（CNEWS資料照/記者陳鈞凱攝）

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【匯流筆陣】
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 CNEWS匯流新聞網：https://cnews.com.tw

【文章轉載請註明出處】

things: 大數據 防疫

title: 磐石艦男實習生又見「陰變陽」確診！ 一採陰後又鼻塞、嗅味覺異常


content_text: 近日磐石艦隊爆發疫情,總統蔡英文上午在總統府發表談話，強調總統是三軍統帥，國軍的事情就是他的責任，也對這波艦隊疫情向國人致歉。

journalist: 公視報導

title: 針對敦睦官兵染疫 總統今向國人致歉


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前香港銅鑼灣書店店長林榮基，昨天遭人潑漆，警方今天凌晨在高雄逮捕涉案的兩名嫌犯，另在逃共犯曾男的哥哥，也在上午11時許於旗津落網。至於其他共犯，還在追查當中。

涉嫌對香港人林榮基動手潑漆的兩名男子，22號凌晨在高雄落網，上午被警方帶回北市警局中山分局偵訊。回顧21號早上，嫌犯尾隨林榮基到中山北路一段巷弄咖啡店，將紅漆裝在飲料杯，趁林榮基坐下時對他潑灑。事隔一天，林榮基的頭髮、手臂仍沾有刺鼻的油漆。

林榮基表示：「早上不知道台灣台北警察已經把嫌疑犯抓到了，出去我當然是有點擔心，我怎麼知道今天會發生什麼事。」

林榮基對於潑漆行為餘悸猶存，外傳嫌犯供稱潑漆的動機是不滿林榮基以募款的方式，在台灣重起爐灶開書店。林榮基無奈表示，募資是紀錄片導演李惠仁給他的建議，而李惠仁也曾為紀錄片募資，難道募資就該被潑漆嗎？

林榮基說：「這是不合理，大陸找台灣的代理人做這個事情，這是不是要真的要把它(中共代理人問題)解決掉？」

香港歌手何韻詩去年來台，就曾被統促黨潑漆襲擊，林榮基如今也遭逢恫嚇，他認為這絕非是單一個案，雖然案件尚未偵結完畢，但林榮基認為，中共代理人的問題不該被輕忽。

journalist: 黃怡菁 吳嘉堡 吳其昌 台北報導

countries: 台灣 香港

taiwan-subdivisions: 高雄 旗津 銅鑼 中山

title: 林榮基昨遭潑漆 3嫌落網、警續追共犯


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海軍磐石艦群聚感染昨天新增3例官兵，都是第二次採檢才確診，有專家建議還要再搭配血清檢驗抗體，才不會有未確診的漏網之魚；而指揮中心也決定，先從磐石艦開始、300多位官兵都要採血驗抗體。

有專家認為，武漢肺炎通常發病第一週、病毒量最高，比較容易採檢陽性，若發病兩、三週，就可能時陰時陽，引此建議除了進行PCR核酸檢測，還要再搭配血清檢驗抗體，才不會有未確診的漏網之魚。

台灣感染症醫學會理事長黃立民指出：「國外的研究是告訴我們說，如果你要採咽喉，不管你要採咽喉或鼻腔呢，如果同時再加上抗體的檢驗就會使得敏感度提高到九成，可是台灣目前因為沒有抗體的檢驗，所以我們還是依靠PCR(核酸檢測)。」

此外，中國最新研究發現，引發武漢肺炎的新型冠狀病毒，有19個新的突變病毒株，外界可能低估病毒株的變異和多樣性，恐怕增加研發疫苗的困難，對此國內專家認為，目前還沒有證據顯示現在的疫苗研發已經失效，不必過度擔心。

黃立民表示：「疫苗主要是針對病毒的外套的一個蛋白質，拿來當疫苗，對它產生抗體，那這個外套的蛋白質要不要突變，就決定於人群當中有免疫力的人的多少。目前還沒有證據說現在疫苗的設計已經失效了。」

疫情指揮中心表示，已決定對敦睦艦隊700多位官兵抽血驗抗體，會先從磐石艦開始，藉此釐清全艦到底有多少人曾經遭感染，若有官兵被驗出抗體，則會再次採檢PCR，以確認身上是否還帶有病毒殘留。

journalist: 賴淑敏 彭耀祖 台北報導

countries: 台灣 中國

events: 冠狀病毒 武漢肺炎

title: 磐石艦3例2採才確診 專家：應搭配驗抗體


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無國界記者組織21號公布最新的全球新聞自由指數報告，北歐國家依舊名列前茅，挪威更連續4年蟬聯榜首，是全球新聞最自由的國家；而北韓跟中亞國家土庫曼，則是在180個國家中墊底。報告也點名，中國政府在新冠病毒疫情爆發初期，打壓包括已病逝的李文亮醫生在內等吹哨者，並嚴格箝制疫情相關報導，導致全球錯失早期阻止疫情大流行的最佳時機，在全球新聞自由排名中維持倒數第四的第177名。

無國界記者組織秘書長德洛瓦說：「有許多國家的政府發動假訊息運動，試圖掩蓋打壓新聞自由的作法，其中最明顯的例子就是中國。北京政權要負起極大責任，北京控制國家訊息傳播，阻止在疫情初期階段做出正確的決定。」

報告也點名香港，指出因反送中運動，媒體記者被警方跟親北京人士暴力對待，讓香港名次下跌7名，排第80名。無國界記者組織指出，隨這疫情持續蔓延，許多極權國家，甚至號稱民主體制國家，都採取所謂「威嚇政策」。通過打壓言論自由的法律，在心理與政治上達到嚇阻效果，採取這種所謂「中國式箝制模式」的國家，包括嚴格控制疫情訊息的伊朗、土耳其、俄羅斯跟歐洲的匈牙利，在排名中都屬於後段班。

無國界記者組織秘書長德洛瓦解釋，「世衛組織把它稱之為假訊息傳染病，在疫情期間大量散播假訊息，由國家所發動的假訊息運動，導致這種現象越來越惡化。我指的不光是只有中國，但中國政府要為這種現象負起極大的責任。」

除了箝制新聞自由外，包括美國總統川普跟巴西總統波索納洛，則是為了掩飾防疫不利，選擇採取仇視媒體的策略。希望透過製造與媒體的衝突，鞏固支持者的向心力。無國界記者組織從2002年開始針對全球新聞自由度進行報告，今年的報告指出，整體而言，歐洲仍是媒體自由度最高的地區，美洲居次，亞太地區則是違反新聞自由最嚴重的地區。

journalist: 靳元慶 編譯

countries: 俄羅斯 土耳其 匈牙利 伊朗 北韓 香港 巴西 挪威 中國 美國 土庫曼

events: 反送中 新冠病毒

things: 假訊息 防疫

title: 全球疫情外一章 新聞自由飽受威脅


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國內武漢肺炎確診病例數持續增加，醫護人員盡全力來照顧，但日前醫護團體針對個人防護裝備與人力配置發放問卷調查，結果發現有近3成基層護理人員認為N95口罩、防水隔離衣與面罩、護目鏡等必要防護裝備明顯不足。

台灣護理產業工會代表張子珩表示：「N95口罩還是有缺號，譬如說他們比較需要S號小的口罩，但是醫院只有統一進M號的情形，當他們跟主管反映的時候甚至會被主管反駁說，你們就繼續用沒有關係。」

醫護團體表示，雖然指揮中心保證物資充足，但還是有醫院手術房的護理師反映，不論一天幾台刀都只用同一副口罩。另外，調查也發現，在疫情爆發後高達7成醫院大幅調動人力，甚至出現不安全跨科支援、護病比過高的情形。

台大醫院企業工會理事吳政廷也指出問題：「每個病房，甚至急診或是各個單位都有限制陪病家屬的數目，當然在門口會有駐警，但這些人數的控管常常都會需要是護理師去分擔，當她在給藥，當她在做治療的時候，如果看到一個人突然跑進來，覺得這個人怎麼沒有看過，她就會必須中斷她身上的治療、中斷她的給藥，然後前去詢問，那些人到底是何方神聖。」

醫護團體呼籲政府，應該持續追蹤醫療裝備缺乏問題，並強制醫院用盈餘改善護理人力，違反者更應以評鑑降級作為懲罰，並不得請領防疫獎金，來正視長期以來的問題。

journalist: 綜合報導

title: 調查：近3成醫護 指個人防護裝備明顯不足


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行政院今天召開紓困振興進度記者會，由院長蘇貞昌來說明最新進度，他表示，這個禮拜大約有90萬人的紓困現金將會入帳，現在對付疫情等於摸著石頭過河，一步一步調整。

立法院三讀通過紓困特別條例修正案，將紓困及振興特別預算加碼到2100億元，且可視疫情狀況再追加2100億元，國民黨團質疑，一共4200億元的紓困銀彈打開舉債的天花板，對此行政院長蘇貞昌回應，這是因應疫情做準備：「疫情的本身，大家都等於摸著石頭過河，那未來會到怎麼樣，也會隨著被疫情衝擊的是怎麼樣，以及因為這樣的疫情變化，是有哪一些經濟活動，有哪一個振興方法比較好，也都是(靈)活的。」

蘇貞昌主打有感救經濟，強調防疫超前部署、紓困也要超前部署，包括中低收入戶與弱勢、計程車和遊覽車司機、自營業者及受創企業員工等，大約有90萬人本周紓困現金將會入帳。

蘇貞昌表示：「弱勢有87萬人現金入帳，1500塊，一家有四口，所以特別加註是行政院發，這些錢我們到縣市政府，很感謝縣市政府最快的速度，昨天都已經開始入帳。」

蘇貞昌表示23號週四將在行政院會中通過追加預算，24號將赴立院報告並備詢。也期盼未來疫情緩和下來後，將會啟動振興措施，鼓勵民眾走出家門消費，至於是不是發酷碰券，蘇貞昌說設計不會局限，會隨社會意見和疫情發展來做調整。

journalist: 朱鳳治 鍾建剛 台北報導

things: 防疫 經濟

title: 紓困進度 蘇揆：本週約90萬人現金入帳


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從今天起民眾可以到超商直接預購口罩，也就是說民眾除了到藥局排隊、透過 eMask 口罩預購平台購買以外，又多了一個可以到超商直接預購、現金繳款、等領口罩的選擇。

民眾只要到超商插卡就能付費預購。健保署說，由於新制「認卡不認人」，民眾可持全家人健保卡到超商一次購足，但每人仍須各自負擔7元運費。

到超商預購口罩時間從今天上午8點開始到24日晚間8點為止，全台1萬多家超商門市都可。

journalist: 蔣龍祥 台北報導

title: 口罩新制今上路 超商插卡「預購+付款」


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中山大學通識課助理教授陳世岳21號邀統促黨總裁張安樂到校演講，主題為「與年輕人談統一促進黨」，事後引發爭議，校長鄭英耀發公開信表示，認為讓以暴力威脅國家安全的人士來校演說「已逾越基本的學術倫理」

海報上貼著統一促進黨總裁張安樂的照片，邀請年輕人來談統促黨，了解時事，關心未來。這場演講是中山大學通識課助理教授陳世岳邀請的，演講地點就在海科院這禮堂，當時約有七十多名大學生到場聆聽，校長鄭英耀事後得知後，痛批是濫用學術自由，向學生致歉。

中山大學西灣學院院長蔡敦浩表示：「藉這個機會讓同學們認識到，台灣是一個具有多元價值，也希望同學們透過這樣的對話跟交流，去認識到說怎麼樣互相的包容。」中山大學學生會長莊皓鈞表示：「我想透過這幾個他們（統促黨）暴力的手段來得知，他們的確是不適合來學校演講。」

校長鄭英耀公開信中表示邀請有恐嚇及組織犯罪前科，以暴力威脅國家安全的人士來校分享政治願景，逾越基本學術倫理，身為校長痛心疾首，不能自己，但統促黨總裁張安樂本人得知後，反問校方怕什麼？「我可以告訴你，沒有組織犯罪前科也沒有恐嚇前科，這個校長要給我交代，我覺得他(校長)害怕啦。」

當初邀約的助理教授陳世岳表示，這回沒考慮到張安樂身分，就提出邀約，確實考慮有欠周詳，也希望風波能盡速平息。

journalist: 陳禕瀅 陳顯坤 高雄報導

taiwan-subdivisions: 安樂 中山

title: 張安樂受邀中山大學演講 引發爭議


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教育部宣布今年國中會考、四技二專統測，將開放冷氣並開門窗保持通風。但因為開窗，可能干擾英聽測驗，因此決定取消，配分挪到閱讀測驗。有考生認為，準備三年突然取消有些不公平。

北市明湖國中學生正在為會考做最後衝刺，國中九年級的孩子每科都要複習，即便英聽只占英文科2成配分也沒放鬆。同學表示：「就關窗（練聽力）啊
（不會擔心嗎），戴口罩，我覺得還好。」關窗練聽力，但教育部宣布會考將開冷氣與門窗，並取消今年的英聽，把配分挪到閱讀測驗。

北市延平高中國中部學生蔡同學說：「其實說影響到很大是不會，但是就是也剩不到一個月啊，這樣突然講的話，就是有點奇怪。」同校的謝同學則表示：「覺得有點不公平，因為，就是大概有在準備聽力，或者是說聽力比較好的同學可以藉由聽力這塊拿分，如果是聽力不好的同學，就這樣不考聽力了他反而就是賺到了，因為他不用擔心他聽力會聽錯。」

今年英聽不考了，有國中認為，決定很唐突，聽力強的學生認為不太公平，老師則認為，恐影響篩選學生的精確度。延平高中國中部英文老師林采頤認為：「我想老師來搭配108課綱，你今年突然收進來學生是可能，他的技能上會有一些地方我沒有辦法做判斷的時候，可能老師在推後續的這些教材上面，可能就會造成蠻多的困擾。」

不考英聽已成既定事實，老師說，只能告訴有不滿情緒的學生，求學路還長，今年不考，到了高中還是得唸，升大學也會考，回到平常心面對。

journalist: 林曉慧 沈志明 台北報導。

title: 會考、統測取消英聽 配分挪至閱讀測驗


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海軍敦睦艦隊爆發群聚感染，造成27名官兵感染武漢肺炎，重挫國軍形象，敦睦艦隊支隊長陳道輝遭懲處調離現職，針對外界質疑隱匿疫情，陳道輝堅決否認，卻坦言沒有回報官兵發燒情形，說法前後矛盾。

海軍敦睦艦隊支隊長陳道輝說：「一人比較嚴重，他住了2天，所以我有回報，剩下4人我很誠實的報告，我並沒有回報，因為醫療小組給我的建議是他們只是一般的感冒，當初我們並沒有收到任何有關於嗅覺方面，或者是那個時間點是沒有的。」

立法院外交及國防委員會上午要求國防部進行磐石軍艦染疫專案報告，國防部長嚴德發坦承沒有即時傳遞防疫動態資訊，衛福部3號發布新冠肺炎通報，新增 「嗅味覺異常」等項目，提到「乾咳、腹瀉、嗅味覺異常」可能是染疫症狀，不過，艦指部9號才透過電郵傳送支隊，也從未回溯追蹤，形成防疫破口，嚴德發自請處分，藍委批評是在幫總統府設防火牆。

嚴德發解釋：「沒有沒有，這個敦睦遠航的磐石艦的官兵學生染疫之後，這是我們國防部跟海軍，我們必須要就這件事情完成整個調查跟應處，這是我們自己國防部本身跟海軍的事情，當然我們也會跟府裡面來做報告。」

至於總統蔡英文日前緊急召見談了什麼，嚴德發回應，國軍爆發疫情後，需要指揮中心提供專業意見，也方便專案小組的後續調查。

journalist: 黃子杰 謝其文 台北報導

events: 武漢肺炎 新冠肺炎

people: 嚴德發 蔡英文

title: 敦睦艦隊群聚 嚴德發立院備詢承認疏失


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上周末新竹北埔出現大量逛街人潮，攤商說是近幾個月以來，人最多的一個禮拜。為加強防疫工作，商圈派人進行車流管制以及管制遊客數，縣府也宣布連假期間遊客人數限制：內灣4000人、北埔10000人、湖口老街只能500人。

新竹縣北埔商圈理事長彭美善說：「北埔就分為，有幾個路口是車流的部份，我們有在做停車場的管制，達到百分之六十以上，我們就會有管制車輛進入。」新竹縣交通旅遊處長游志祥表示，「從上週開始一直到這週假日，我們都分別在這三個人行出口部分，開始設管制點；然後透過量體溫以及宣傳廣告部分來勸導遊客。只要人數達到上限的時候，我們都希望他不要再進入這個商圈。」

另一個熱門景點新竹市動物園，也啟動防疫相關措施：門口設置LED顯示目前在園人數，若園內超過2000人，隨即啟動人數管制暫停入園。民眾說：「畢竟這麼敏感，敏感時期，其實因為大家都會怕。你說平日來，其實假日來，大家都會怕。」也有民眾表示，「當然是很好，因為這樣比較容易保持社交距離，比較不會容易說大家都太近，然後都擠在一起。」

五一連假即將到來，也考驗著各縣市政府防疫工作。呼籲民眾出門時，也要遵守各項防疫措施，以免影響出遊心情。

journalist: 張君豪 新竹報導

taiwan-subdivisions: 北埔 竹北 湖口 新竹 新竹縣 新竹市

title: 北埔老街湧現人潮 商圈管制車流、人潮


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行政院長蘇貞昌指出，酷碰券隨著疫情變化跟各界意見，會做最好規劃。經濟部表示將會持續檢討，提出對民眾最有利的方式，不排除任何的可能性。

為協助產業、民眾度過武漢肺炎疫情衝擊，經濟部在疫情期間先推出紓困方案，待疫情和緩後，再推出振興方案刺激消費。其中，經濟部初步規劃推出酷碰券，民眾消費時需結合行動支付平台，才可享受折扣優惠。

蘇貞昌上午出席「紓困振興進度記者會」時表示，酷碰券是振興階段的措施，原意就如同當初的夜市券一樣，用來刺激、誘導消費，引出更大的經濟活動。如果設計可以更好，就不限於就這樣，可以不斷發展，隨著疫情發展、各界提出寶貴意見，相信經濟部會做最好的規劃。

經濟部官員受訪時指出，目前確實在持續蒐集各方意見，包含立委質詢時提出的觀點、民眾利用不同管道所做的回饋，都會納入審酌評估，作為政策調整的依據。此外，行政院長蘇貞昌指示應該檢討的政策內容，也會持續檢討，若有進一步的具體方向，會再報告。

經濟部官員坦言，這項政策從制定開始到目前提出的方案，過程中一直不斷與各方業者座談、交換意見，但彼此的看法確實都不太一樣。是否調整、調整幅度與調整方向，都還在規劃，經濟部內不排除任何可能，以發揮最大效益、照顧最多民眾為原則，盼能找到一個最適切的方案。

（新聞資料來源 : 中央社）

title: 經濟部：對民眾最有利方式持續檢討酷碰券


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記者/洪德南投報導

南投縣8月24日及8月26日新增2例境外移入登革熱病例，分別為12歲及16歲女學生，2人為姐妹，居住埔里鎮，於暑期越南旅遊期間感染。2名病例於8月2日至23日期間前往越南，自8月20日起出現發燒症狀，其中1名因入境時發燒於機場篩檢站登革熱快篩陽性通報，另1名則是因隨同就醫經醫師發現其已發燒，透過詢問旅遊史登革熱快篩陽性後通報，經疾管署判定為登革熱確定病例。2名病例目前已痊癒出院，經衛生局疫情調查，其同行親友及同住接觸者均無疑似症狀。

衛生局表示，衛生局接獲機場通報後，即時與病例聯繫及衛教立即就醫，家屬配合公衛防疫作業，主動就醫並告知醫師旅遊史及症狀，由醫院協助收治住院進行住院隔離，讓醫療端與公衛端掌握治療及防疫黃金時機，並阻絕社區傳播風險。

衛生局提醒，今年截至8月28日南投縣共6例境外移入病例，主要感染來源為東南亞國家，民眾自疫情流行地區返國後如出現發燒、頭痛、肌肉酸痛、後眼窩痛、皮膚紅疹等疑似登革熱症狀，應儘速就醫，並主動告知旅遊史及接觸史，以利醫師及時診斷與治療；臨床醫療人員也須注意病人疾病徵象及落實TOCC(旅遊史、職業史、接觸史、群聚史)詢問。

衛生局呼籲，前往疫情流行地區，務必做好穿著長袖長褲及塗抹衛福部許可防蚊液等防蚊措施，且清除孳生源是防治登革熱根本之道，民眾應依「巡、倒、清、刷」加強居家環境巡查，落實戶內外積水容器清除並做好個人防護措施。有關登革熱相關資訊，請參閱疾病管制署網站http://www.cdc.gov.tw或撥打1922傳染病諮詢專線洽詢。

taiwan-subdivisions: 南投縣 埔里 南投

things: 登革熱 防疫

title: 南投縣新增2例境外移入登革熱病例，呼籲民眾出國旅遊應做好防蚊措施-健康


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【記者黃緒勳台南報導】美國聖湯瑪士大學一行8人，3月28日拜會在台南的嘉南藥理大學。兩校本為姊妹校，這次久別相見，格外親切溫馨，也為雙方進一步推動學術交流，簽署合作協議書，此後將正式開啟交換生制度，未來兩校學生於在學期間，可到對方學校研修課程並相互承認學分，不僅嘉惠兩校學子，也擴大彼此實質互惠的交流平台。

這次聖湯瑪士大學由校長路維克（Richard L. Ludwick）夫婦，率領副校長伊凡斯（Christopher P. Evans）、國際研究中心主任史漢傑（Hans Jakob Stockton），以及該校名譽董事王敦正夫婦、校董事賴賢烈夫婦，來台參訪並簽約，受到嘉藥熱情款待。歡迎會上彼此談笑風生，氣氛融洽，簽訂合作協議書後，一行人參觀嘉藥校園，對於美輪美奐的宿舍與水療館等設施，令遠道客人讚嘆不已。

嘉藥校長陳鴻助表示，學校與聖湯瑪士大學友誼深厚，早在2011年雙方即展開學術交流，2014年簽訂合作備忘錄，2015年起每年暑假，嘉藥師生赴該校參加國際研習營，至今已有近40位學生受惠；而聖湯瑪士大學每兩年也選派學生來台進行短期文化交流，除參訪校園外，也安排走訪台南名勝古蹟和夜市，並品嚐府城道地美食，體驗正港的古都味，留下深刻印象。

陳校長期盼在既有合作基礎上，透過這次締結交換生協議，讓兩校情誼更加緊密，也為雙方的互惠交流再邁開一大步。聖湯瑪士大學校長路維克高興回應說，未來將持續辦理國際研習夏令營，邀請嘉藥學生來校學習並體會美國文化，同時選送更多該校學生來台認識充滿人情味的寶島；這次簽署協議書將交換生互訪慣例具體化，不僅促進雙邊學術交流，也讓兩校學子拓展全球視野，累積豐厚的國際移動力與競爭力。

聖湯瑪士大學位於美國德州休斯頓，素以商學專業聞名，也被美國新聞與世界報導評選為頂尖大學，而當地的美國太空總署（NASA）、自然科學博物館、德州喬治農場史蹟公園及職棒太空人隊，國人耳熟能詳，這些都成為嘉藥學生每次赴美研習時必定造訪的景點，體驗牛仔文化和觀賞主隊職棒比賽，更是令人興奮又難忘的遊學回憶。

journalist: 記者黃緒勳台南報導

title: 嘉藥與美國聖湯瑪士大學締結交換生協議 嘉惠學子-校園


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【記者 玉女 台中 報導】

全國技能競賽分區賽本（23）日於北、中、南三區隆重登場，去年新增的「資訊網路布建(電訊布建)」等五項新興職類於今年度正式同步納入賽程，勞動部勞動力發展署中彰投分署首次培訓的「資訊網路布建(電訊布建)」選手將上場參賽，其中被培訓老師看好的學員錢宥亦，一年前考高中時落榜，懷著「雪恥」的心情接受每天8小時密集培訓，他表示想證明高職生也有光明的前途和未來。

中彰投分署林淑媛分署長表示，「資訊網路布建」是發展智慧城市的重要關鍵，未來對於「光纖到家」的物聯網發展，其技術至關重要，基於資通訊技術產業領域的快速發展，中彰投分署今年新增「資訊網路布建」職類選手的培訓，期望選手能有多元就業面向及專業發展潛能。

中彰投分署培訓老師宋佩珊表示，「資訊網路布建」是資訊網路及通信建設中一項重要的專業技術，光纖結構佈線及銅纜結構佈線必須具備審慎細膩的思考能力，也必須擁有過人的體力，以及完成競賽任務的耐力，是一項壓力強度還滿高的實務型競賽，選手錢宥亦小小年紀表現沈穩，具有布建技術所需「快狠準」、傳輸品質高、損耗小的精湛技巧，只要能在比賽中臨危不亂，發揮平常練習的實力，可望獲得佳績。

錢宥亦今年就讀台中高工電子科一年級，他表示目前一方面要接受中彰投分署每天8小時的培訓及練習，一方面才剛結束工業電子科丙級測驗，緊接著還要準備學校5月份的期中考，考驗接踵而來，他雖倍感壓力，但沒有時間憂慮，因為他每天練習時必須集中心力，包括銅纜布建、光纖清潔…等，都是極細密的工作，手要很穩不能抖，心要很細不能亂，否則一旦弄斷線體影響傳輸，就是前功盡棄。

錢宥亦說，原本爸爸媽媽對於他高中落榜有些落寞，但見他在高工電子科學習得很開心，父母已逐漸覺得唸高職沒有什麼不好，他接受老師推薦到中彰投分署培訓，獲益良多，也得到很好的啟發，他希望透過培訓、參賽的考驗來挑戰自己，累積實力，未來他希望能夠進入電子大廠工作，證明擁有技能一樣也能走出屬於自己的康莊大道。

本屆全國技能競賽中區分賽因疫情因素，不開放民眾參觀，但競賽資訊及得獎選手英雄榜將於4月25日上午10點30分公告於中彰投分署官網（https://tcnr.wda.gov.tw/），歡迎各界關注競賽訊息。

taiwan-subdivisions: 中區 新興

title: 全國技能競賽中區分區賽4/23登場-活動


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【記者 玉女 台中 報導】

家中長輩經常有拇指外翻、足底筋膜炎或是膝踝關節疼痛症狀，如何檢測足部體態健康狀態，並且客製化舒適的鞋墊供長輩使用，是件重要的工作。為打造鞋墊設計製造與功能性驗證中心，聖約翰科技大學休閒運動與健康管理系成立全國唯一「快速客製化足踝矯治中心」，培育足鞋驗配師、足踝輔具設計及鞋技中心研究員等產業人才。學生畢業起薪至少38K，有經驗者更能取得42K至45K的薪資，並有能力至醫療輔具、鞋製產業就業或成立個人工作室，走出另一條不同的職涯路。

周東賢主任表示，有些民眾長年深受扁平足、高弓足、內外八字足、長短腳、拇指外翻或是足底筋膜炎等足部疾患所苦，若能事先檢測並透過量身訂製鞋墊予以矯正，某種程度是有機會不需經由外科手術，透過每日行走的「被動矯正」方式可以有效改善這些困擾。因此，「快速客製化足踝矯治」比照視光驗配的模式，開創出一條龍式的足鞋驗配與驗證產業模式。操作者2小時就可以在中心獨力完成足鞋驗配與驗證流程，也就是說，需求者只要花一杯咖啡的時間，就可以立即取得量身訂製鞋墊。目前中心已發展到利用3D列印成型技術，來完成全接觸式TPU材質客製化鞋墊製備，達到快速客製化與彈性修正技術以符合產業需求。

「目前快速客製化足踝矯治技術已經非常成熟，未來龐大的銀髮族保健鞋商機無限」，周東賢主任指出，透過全自動足壓足形分析系統、步態量測系統等先進設備可快速檢測銀髮長者的靜態足部特性與步態運動行為，以供足踝、下肢及體態功能性異常的評估參考。學生如果對這個產業有興趣的話，可以在中心裡學習足壓、足形與步態量測技術、完整NC/3DP客製化鞋墊設計與生產技術以及整合人因工程與醫學工程技術。畢業後可以透過教育訓練與實務經驗擔任足鞋驗配師、足踝輔具設計師、醫療輔具產業（例如：正全義肢）、鞋製產業（例如： La New、阿瘦），以及財團法人鞋技中心擔任研發部門等職務，大學畢業起薪至少38K。

值得一提的是，除了課堂教學及實務操作之外，周東賢主任也經常帶領學生參與偏鄉社區長者足踝體態步態健檢服務，指導銀髮長者如何保養腳踝與膝蓋？如何避免跌倒等實務，並且讓阿公阿嬤們透過電腦影像看到自己的足壓、足形及步態影像資訊，更懂得如何保健自己的足部健康。

「我們擁有全國唯一的4大亮點特色」，周東賢主任說，除了「快速客製化足踝矯治中心」之外，休健系還擁有全國唯一的「健身體適能教育學院」、「健護整合中心」及「校園餐旅實習會館」，讓學生可以依照自己的興趣與專長選擇朝向休閒運動、健康管理及餐旅觀光等產業發展，就業之路無限寬廣。

title: 知「足」常樂　聖約翰科大成立全國唯一客製化足踝矯治中心-生活


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在乳腺癌防治中早检查、早诊断、早治疗是改善乳腺癌患者的预后，提高存活率的关键。定期的乳腺自我检查可以提高早期乳腺癌的检出率。您知道乳腺自我检查有哪些方法吗？

中国医学科学院肿瘤医院肿瘤内科主任医师马飞介绍，首先，暴露上半身的躯体，然后正对着镜子来观察。先双手叉腰观察双侧的乳房是否对称、乳头是否在同一个平面、大小是否一样、有没有凸起或凹陷。然后把手从腰部再举到头部，如果在运动过程中一侧的乳头上升了另一侧并没有动，可能就有问题，就需要密切关注。第二步，平躺下来触摸。左侧手触摸右侧，右侧手触摸左侧，触摸的范围包括整个乳房、腋窝等部位，用手来轻轻的画一个圆，先轻轻的触一下，然后再用力的触一下。恶性结节在手感上相对比较硬一些、边缘相对比较模糊一些，它跟周围的组织相对来说没有特别清的分界线，推它很难推得动。如果触得感觉跟嘴唇的感觉类似，柔软的、活动的，多数它是正常的；如果触到的感觉像鼻尖的感觉，有一点点硬但是可以动的，多数是良性结节。对于女性来说，绝大部分的结节都不是恶性的。

中国医学科学院肿瘤医院超声科主任医师王勇介绍，在触诊的时候一定用指腹平推，不要用手去捏。如果用手捏的话，很容易把增生当成肿块，引起不必要的担忧。

专家提示，乳房检查时间以月经结束一周后为最佳，如果女性朋友月经周期不规则可以选择每月的同一天进行自检。

journalist: 刘登亮

title: 【快看·健康】您知道乳腺自我检查的正确方式吗？_健康_央视网(cctv.com)


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脱贫攻坚是习近平总书记心里最牵挂的一件大事。4月21日，习近平总书记来到陕西省安康市平利县老县镇考察当地脱贫攻坚等情况，习近平在搬迁户汪显平家，同一家老少围坐在一起拉家常。他指出，移得出、稳得住、住得下去，才能安居乐业。要住得下去就要靠稳定就业，务工是主要出路。而汪显平一家就是总书记说的这些政策的受益人。

总书记来我们家啦！

汪显平一家五口之前住在山沟里。汪显平的儿子汪鑫还记得小时候家门口全是泥巴路，他上学时读的村小，一个年级只出了包括他在内的两个大学生。

自从脱贫攻坚以来，汪显平一家从山村土房搬到了镇上的楼房，从此好事不断：汪显平夫妇有了稳定的工作；汪显平的儿子汪鑫在浙江大学上大学，每年有国家贫困生补助；汪显平的父母也有了养老金、高龄补贴。4月21日下午，他们家还迎来了一位贵客。

在老县镇的锦屏社区，大部分贫困户都通过易地扶贫搬迁改变了命运。

▲汪敏和儿子

▲张信礼夫妇

汪敏一家和张信礼一家情况有些相似。他们以前都住在大山上，曾经靠种地为生。汪敏曾经为了给孩子看病背着他走了两个多小时山路，张信礼也曾因为供两个女儿读书，经济压力很大。2014年，两家人先后从山上搬到了锦屏社区，从此生活大变样。

不仅仅是锦屏社区的居民。目前，全国易地扶贫搬迁960多万贫困人口，中西部地区还同步搬迁500万非贫困人口，相当于一个中等国家的人口规模。下一步要怎么干？今年3月6日，习近平总书记在决战决胜脱贫攻坚座谈会上的讲话中指出，“现在搬得出的问题基本解决了，下一步的重点是稳得住、有就业、逐步能致富。”而在本次考察中，谈到易地扶贫搬迁时，习近平总书记再次强调了这一理念。

监制丨申勇

策划丨史伟

记者丨贾林 杨永青 刘涛瑞 李承儒

视觉丨陕西台 平利台

taiwan-subdivisions: 中西 山上

title: 时政特稿丨易地扶贫搬迁 总书记说要这么干_新闻频道_央视网(cctv.com)


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最近在网络上还有很多自制儿童口罩的视频，比如给孩子小小的脸上戴上大大的成人口罩，再掏出两个小洞露出眼睛，被网友戏称为“打劫式口罩”。还有一种则是给成人口罩的两侧折叠或者缝起来变小，以贴合儿童的面部大小。

这些改造的成人口罩能给儿童起到防护作用吗？

中国疾控中心学校卫生中心主任马军表示，这两种措施都不推荐使用，它一个是改变了口罩密闭的结构特点，再一个它给儿童佩戴也带来了不适，所以希望还是选用相对应的儿童口罩更好。

口罩是通过过滤空气来过滤病毒，起到防护作用。但如果把口罩剪了洞之后，口罩的整体结构已经被破坏了，等于让口罩处于一个四周漏气的状态。而家长们给口罩折叠变小的方法，其实也并不能完全保证口罩的密闭性，同样不推荐。

title: 【从我做起 共同战“疫”】“打劫式口罩”能起到保护儿童的作用吗？_健康_央视网(cctv.com)


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央视网消息：目前国内成品油市场实施的是40美元的地板价格，但随着低价的原油逐步进入国内市场，国内的汽柴油价格会有下调的空间吗？

在重庆的一家民营连锁加油站，从4月份开始，92号汽油和95号汽油都有不同程度的优惠。

而在山东地方炼厂所在的区域，很多民营加油站的打折力度更大，每升汽油价格都要便宜2块钱以上。

市场分析机构表示，目前国内炼厂之前进口的高价原油还需要消化一段时间，进入下半年之后，低价原油将逐步进入国内，这也将加剧下游销售环节的竞争。

记者了解到，目前我们国家每年的石油需求超过6亿吨，而国内炼油能力已经接近9亿吨，整个炼油行业的开工负荷在70%左右。

中国石化经研院副总工程师 柯晓明：同时有一些新投产的炼厂它为回收投资，它必须提高生产负荷，所以造成资源更加供大于求，加上外部市场不好，我们产品出口的效益也会受到影响，因此，成品油终端的市场竞争会越来越激烈。

journalist: 赵延灵

title: 每升汽油便宜2块钱以上？很多民营加油站的打折力度加大


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杜特尔特

【海外网4月22日|战疫全时区】据美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）21日报道，菲律宾总统杜特尔特表示将投入更多资金，用于新冠肺炎疫苗的研发。杜特尔特还承诺，给予能够成功研发疫苗的个人单独奖励。

菲律宾总统发言人哈里·洛克21日表示，“新冠病毒不仅是菲律宾的头号敌人，也是全世界的敌人。杜特尔特总统已承诺，将给予成功研发新冠肺炎疫苗的人1000万比索（约合人民币139万元）的奖励。”

哈里·洛克还表示，杜特尔特也承诺向菲律宾大学和菲律宾总医院的实验室提供大量补助金，以推进新冠肺炎的治疗工作。不过发言人没有透露拨款的具体金额。

杜特尔特早些时候表示，只有在新冠肺炎的抗体研发准备好并广泛应用后，菲律宾才会取消隔离措施。他表示，相关治疗方案最早会在5月份推出，但他没有透露研发机构的名字。

截至4月21日下午4时，菲律宾累计确诊新冠肺炎病例6599例，其中死亡437例。截至4月20日晚6时，菲律宾已经完成对58072人的病毒检测。

journalist: 戴萌萌

events: 新冠肺炎 死亡 新冠病毒

title: 杜特尔特：成功研发新冠肺炎疫苗者奖励139万元


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央视网消息：据美国媒体当地时间4月21日报道，加州公共卫生官员表示，加州已经在一定程度上改变该对何人进行新冠病毒检测的限制，首次建议将工作在养老院、监狱甚至一些高风险环境中的无症状人群定为优先考虑对象。

△图片来源：网络

加州卫生官员表示，这一方案的修改，使加州成为第一个放宽联邦检测指导方针的州，也反映出加州对新冠病毒检测能力的提升。据卫生官员同时介绍，目前加州州实验室和商业实验室用量的报告显示，仍有足够空间和能力来对更多的人群进行新冠病毒检测。（央视记者 许弢 许骁）

title: 美国加州首次建议对无症状人群进行新冠病毒检测


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来源：央视网

更新时间：2020年04月22日 13:11

视频简介：财经观察：全球战“疫”，外籍劳工聚集地为新加坡疫情重灾区。

title: [天下财经]财经观察：全球战“疫” 外籍劳工聚集地为新加坡疫情重灾区


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新华社尼科西亚4月21日电 综述：欧洲多国疫情进入平台期 计划逐步重启经济

新华社记者

近来，欧洲国家采取的“封城”等防疫措施开始显现效果，一些国家的疫情进入平台期，多个国家考虑逐步恢复经济活动。

逐步取消管控重启经济

意大利21日现有新冠患者数量连续第二天下降，治愈病例创下单日最高增幅。意大利政府积极储备防疫和救治物资，为恢复经济活动做准备。意大利总理孔特当天表示，意大利可能从5月4日开始逐步恢复经济活动，但一些管制措施将继续实施。

法国总统马克龙日前说，法国自3月17日实施的“禁足令”已见成效，但需要继续采取限制措施，“禁足令”将延长至5月11日。

德国政府日前决定将社交限制措施至少延长至5月3日，但允许面积不超过800平方米的商店在满足清洁卫生、人员限流等前提下，从4月20日起陆续开放营业。

瑞士21日公布的新增确诊病例数为近40天来最少。瑞士政府16日宣布，从27日开始分阶段逐步放松管控措施。瑞士联邦铁路公司21日宣布，将从27日起恢复部分此前因疫情停运的铁路线路。

葡萄牙议会21日表示，国家紧急状态5月2日结束之后不会再延长，政府4月30日将召开部长会议讨论5月份放松一些隔离政策，重启经济和社会生活。

斯洛伐克危机委员会21日决定，从22日起逐步放开限制措施，共分四个阶段恢复经济活动。

塞尔维亚政府20日宣布，从21日起，生鲜市场、汽车修理店、洗衣店等经营场所可以恢复正常营业，建筑工地可以复工。

希腊于3月23日实行的全国“禁足令”将于4月27日结束。希腊政府正在计划恢复社会正常运转，其政府发言人说，恢复运转的过程将是缓慢、长期而有针对性的。

荷兰每日入院患者的人数近期出现稳定下降趋势。荷兰政府新冠危机政策咨询机构“疫情管理小组”认为，目前荷兰的公共卫生状况处于“可控状态”。

塞浦路斯单日新增感染人数也呈下降趋势，政府初步考虑在月底“禁足令”到期后，不再进一步延长，并先行恢复中小企业运转。

奥地利单日新增确诊病例连续多天降至100例以下。奥地利从4月14日起已恢复部分商业设施营业。奥地利总理库尔茨21日宣布，鉴于第一步放松防疫措施计划进展顺利，政府将按照既定方案，继续谨慎推进各领域逐步“开放”。

抗疫是一场持久战

目前，部分欧洲国家疫情仍处于上升阶段。匈牙利21日报告累计确诊病例达2098例，累计死亡病例达213例，治愈287例。匈牙利外长西亚尔托在社交媒体上表示，抗疫是一场持久战，估计匈牙利疫情5月3日才能到达平台期。

罗马尼亚21日报告新增感染病例306例，累计9242例，累计死亡482例。罗总统约翰尼斯说，现在讨论放松限制为时尚早。

阿尔巴尼亚议会法律委员会21日批准将3月24日开始实施的国家自然灾害状态延长至6月23日。

意大利新冠疫情应急委员会特别专员阿尔库里21日说，目前意大利医疗系统的呼吸机等设备已经完全能够满足救治新冠病人的需要，但不能放松警惕，意大利为疫情反复做好了准备。

德国一些州出台了“口罩强制令”，要求民众在乘坐公交系统等特定情况下必须佩戴口罩。德国总理默克尔表示，必须保持清醒和自律，一旦部分商店开始营业等“解封”措施导致新增病例激增，重新全面收紧限制将不可避免。

瑞士联邦公共卫生办公室将于5月11日推出新冠疫情追踪软件，用以监控病毒传播链。（执笔记者：张保平；参与记者：陈占杰、林惠芬、蒋雪、张毅荣、温新年、袁亮、朱昊晨、陈俊侠、于帅帅、禾苗、章亚东、张修智、潘革平、陈晨、石中玉、于涛、张章、张琪、彭立军）

countries: 斯洛伐克 瑞士 匈牙利 葡萄牙

title: 欧洲多国疫情进入平台期 计划逐步重启经济


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中新网4月22日电 据俄罗斯卫星网报道，日前，俄罗斯莫斯科州州长安德烈 沃罗比约夫在“俄罗斯24”电视台节目上表示，他认为莫斯科州在五月节假日期间，会继续实施此前因新冠疫情采取的限制措施。

资料图：当地时间3月30日起，莫斯科所有市民不分年龄开始在家自我隔离。 中新社记者 王修君 摄

据报道，在电视台节目上，当被问到五月节假日期间是否会继续实行限制措施时，沃罗比约夫称：“我认为，限制措施的实施期限当然会延长。”

他补充说，目前新冠病毒感染病例数在增加，但每天的增速低于10%。据悉，截至当地时间4月21日，俄罗斯首都莫斯科市新冠病毒感染已接近3万例，莫斯科州的感染人数也接近6000例。

沃罗比约夫说，由于当前采取的预防措施，莫斯科州的新冠疫情将在两三周内出现好转。

据悉，5月1日劳动节和5月9日胜利日是俄罗斯的法定节假日，2020年5月1日至5日、9日至11日与周末连休放假。

events: 新冠病毒 放假

title: 俄莫斯科州疫情持续 州长：5月节假日将继续限制措施


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〔記者徐郁雯／台北報導〕Dcard創辦人簡勤佑獲任國民黨「數位諸葛亮」（數位行銷科技長）一職，雖然才上任短短8天，但竟然連國民黨主席「江啟臣」名字都打錯，誤植為「江啟程」。這讓網紅四叉貓在臉書虧爆說：「有沒有上任已經八天，還搞不清楚自己老闆名字的八卦？」並要他罰寫10次。

四叉貓揪出江啟臣名字有誤。（翻攝自臉書）

四叉貓過去也參加「數位諸葛亮」海選，雖然在初選中就落敗，但受邀擔任「數位貂蟬」提問人，題目相當精闢，大受好評。時時監督國民黨的他，眼尖發現在國民黨革實院所推出的直播節目《未來沙龍》中，江啟臣名字竟被誤植為「江啟程」。

四叉貓揪出江啟臣名字有誤。（翻攝自臉書）

四叉貓就在臉書開酸說：「有沒有數位諸葛亮上任已經八天，還搞不清楚自己老闆名字的八卦？國民黨主席江啟『臣』，去罰寫十次明天交。」還畫了10個框框，要簡勤佑好好檢討。不過，簡勤佑相當有自知之明，早先在臉書罰寫3次，並自嘲說：「大家比我還熟主席名字。」

journalist: 徐郁雯

title: 笑死！「數位諸葛亮」誤植江啟臣名字 四叉貓虧爆：罰寫10次


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受到武漢肺炎疫情影響，東京奧運延至明年舉辦。（資料照，法新社）

〔記者粘藐云／綜合報導〕日本傳染病專家岩田健太郎日前在受訪時表示，由於目前疫情仍未控制，對於延期到明年的東京奧運感到擔憂，今天又傳出，日本東京奧運組委會內部有職員確診，目前已經隔離接受治療。

岩田健太郎為日本神戶大學醫學教授，也曾登上鑽石公主號去勘查疫情。法新社指出，岩田健太郎在受訪時曾表示，對於明年舉行奧運抱著遲疑的態度，「我認為明年不太可能舉行奧運，要舉行得滿足兩個條件，第一是日本必須控制病毒的傳播，再來是全世界能有效控制疫情，因為要邀請世界各地的選手到日本。」他表示，第一種條件是有機會達成，但第二個條件難度很高。

在普遍不看好的情況下，今天又有壞消息傳出，《日刊體育》報導，東京奧運組委會有一名30多歲職員確診，今天開始在家隔離休養，而與他有過緊密接觸的職員也自今天起進行隔離，並關閉該職員工作的樓層進行消毒。

東奧組委會發聲明表示，「關於這次事件，我們將繼續與相關機構合作，在保健所的指導下，努力抑制疫情擴大，同時為維護職員的安全，會採取一切必要的措施。」

journalist: 自由體育

title: 武漢肺炎》東奧明年舉辦不被看好 組委會又驚傳職員確診 - 自由體育


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2020-04-22 14:33
 台電董事長楊偉甫（右3）向國民黨立委楊瓊瓔解釋台電今年購煤預算。（記者林菁樺攝）

〔記者林菁樺／台北報導〕台電今年燃煤購入預算編列768.88億元，不過在野黨立委楊瓊瓔、陳椒華等認為用煤量應落實減煤增氣政策與公投每年減少1%火力發電結果，提案要求減列18%、138億元；但台電僅允諾今年生煤用量會低於去年，未能提出實際減煤幅度，購煤預算全案保留並送朝野黨團協商。

經濟部次長曾文生表示，預算審查涉及「用煤量」與「生煤價格」，經濟部已監督台電生煤用量，且台電也都優先降載台中、興達電廠，成效顯著，曾文生強調，價格屬於不確定因素，如果把預算壓太低，會造成電力調度問題。

根據台電統計，2018年全國實際用煤量為2900萬公噸，去年降至2744萬公噸，今年計劃用量則為2908萬噸。台電董事長楊偉甫解釋，計畫用量都會高於最後實際值，可確定的是今年生煤用量會比去年2744萬公噸少，但幅度多少還要精算。

楊偉甫也說明，電力成長或下滑、天然氣調度等都會牽動全國生煤使用量，他提到，統計至第1季為止，國內用電並未受武漢肺炎疫情衝擊，出現逆勢成長近3%狀況，可判斷工廠等用電大戶幾乎未受影響。

不過，台電也補充，首季發電量雖呈現成長趨勢，但行政院主計總處已下修GDP預測，加上4月天氣比往年涼爽，30度以上天數較少，統計4月以來至昨天（21）為止，發電量呈現負成長2.23%，台電研判，溫度是主因，而疫情多少也會限縮用電，只是影響程度還要進一步觀察。

經委會現場對購煤預算減列或凍結爭論不休，時代力量立委陳椒華強調，砍預算非政治問題，也向環保署要求資料，確認過台電無須用到這麼多生煤，刪減百億元預算獲得國民黨支持，相信「執政黨會負責任」。但此話讓民進黨立委邱議瑩、邱志偉無法接受，要陳椒華別扣帽子；國民黨立委楊瓊瓔則喊話台電，減列18%預算，且絕對還有剩餘也符合安全存量30天，要台電不要再欺騙民眾。

朝野立委對購煤預算未有共識，僅認同台電要減煤，最終全案送朝野黨團協商，並要求台電3個星期內提出今年減煤估算目標。

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journalist: 林菁樺

events: 公投 武漢肺炎 發電

people: 邱志偉 邱議瑩 陳椒華 楊瓊瓔

title: 沒減煤幅度 立委提案砍台電百億購煤預算


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［記者彭健禮／苗栗報導］「醫師，最近聽說有武漢肺炎確診患者到過我們家附近的店，我實在擔心到吃不下也睡不著，不知道該怎麼辦？」受武漢肺炎疫情影響，民眾壓力增加，不少人出現焦慮、情緒不穩等問題，大千綜合醫院南勢醫院院長暨精神科醫師洪國翔指出，壓力和不穩定的情緒若沒有釋放，容易影響免疫力，反而讓病毒有機可趁。

洪國翔提醒，確實做好防護措施、均衡飲食、作息正常、維持運動習慣，來增強身體免疫力，就無需太過憂慮疫情問題了。

面對疫情每天不同的變化，不少民眾因焦慮而求助精神科醫師協助，洪國翔建議民眾可嘗試轉換心情，以衛福部疫情防治中心訊息為主，減少追蹤新聞及社群媒體，並從事其他活動來轉移注意力；另外，也可以多攝取深海魚類、堅果類、維他命B群、深綠色植物以及優質蛋白質，對增強免疫力與預防焦慮也是有幫助的。

洪國翔說，對於本身有精神疾病的病人，除維持正常作息及運動之外，若有症狀起伏，應找專業醫師協助，不可自行增減原有藥物的劑量。

想要舒緩焦慮感，洪國翔表示，可以找信任的人交談，將情緒抒發出來；適當的飲食、睡眠和運動；勿以吸菸、酗酒或使用其他藥物來緩解情緒；如果大量的疫情資訊讓民眾覺得煩躁、有壓力，那就減少關注這些訊息的時間。

journalist: 彭健禮

title: 緊盯疫情太焦慮 反讓病毒有機可趁 - 即時新聞 - 自由健康網


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2020-04-22 14:06
 任天堂Switch熱銷。（資料照，彭博）

〔財經頻道／綜合報導〕日本電玩大廠任天堂（Nintendo）最新推出的遊戲《集合啦！動物森友會》（Animal Crossing: New Horizons）熱銷，成為市場話題。外媒報導，美國激進投資者「ValueAct Capital Partners」在信件表示，已斥資11億美元（約333億元新台幣）進場任天堂，主要是認為任天堂的數位軟體分銷管道，以及新興娛樂產品發展，將會促進公司增長。

《路透》報導，ValueAct從2019年4月開始買入任天堂股票，但在今年2月、3月股市拋售期間，ValueAct大舉加碼，ValueAct認為任天堂未來光明，除了軟體業務表現亮眼，公司也有可能轉型成業務更加廣泛的娛樂公司，相信任天堂會成為全球最大的數位媒體服務商之一，和Netflix、Disney+、騰訊及Apple Music類似。

目前ValueAct持有任天堂260萬股，約占任天堂整體股票的2%。在東京上市的任天堂股價22日上漲約2%。

報導稱，ValueAct已和任天堂高層進行了幾次會議，認同任天堂CEO古川俊太郎（Shuntaro Furukawa）與ValueAct及其他公司分享的願景。

雖然其他激進投資者往往會對目標企業公開施壓，甚至要求董事會席次，但ValueAct不太一樣，它們更傾向在幕後與公司管理層合作。ValueAct在信中表示，其合夥人曾在Adobe和微軟董事會工作，現在則通過相關指導和經驗幫助任天堂。但它們並沒有要求董事會席次。

報導指出，日本企業管理層總對那些自以為是的美國投資者持謹慎態度，但ValueAct稱，公司從任天堂那得到的回饋有所不同，稱任天堂高層「歡迎那些肯花時間，理解任天堂獨特發展的人」。

對任天堂的投資，也成為ValueAct在2018年投資美國花旗銀行12億美元後，最大的投資之一，雖然雙方有著許多溝通，但ValueAct沒有要求花旗的董事會席次。

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countries: 美國 日本

title: 看好任天堂前景！美激進投資者砸333億進場


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消防員進出火場除充滿危險性，消防衣更因沾染有害物質對健康造成危害。（中港消防分隊提供）（記者許國楨攝）

〔記者許國楨／台中報導〕許多民眾可能不知道，打火兄弟進出火場除充滿危險性，身上更因沾染具危害致癌物質，長期對健康也是一大危害，但消防衣的清洗格外重要也有一套SOP流程，以中市消防局中港分隊而言，因目前僅有的一台公發專用洗衣機因一次僅能洗一套，十分耗時，最近有物業公司鑑此再贈一台給該分隊，希藉此提升消防衣清洗效率，確保第一線消防人員健康及安全。

中港分隊說，消防人員在搶救過程中時刻充滿危險性，進出火場時消防衣都會沾染具危害的碳粒子、化學殘留物及致癌物質，除了易引起皮膚過敏、搔癢外，長期對呼吸及皮膚系統健康是一大危害，局本部近年來非常重視這個問題，陸續添購第一線救災人員2套6年內消防衣褲。

在維護保養方面，火場簡易除汙灑水設備、消防衣專用洗衣機及消防衣風乾設備也陸續設置，讓打火兄弟從充滿危害的火場中離開時，在最短時間內完成消防衣「除汙」、「洗淨」、「風乾」三項SOP，並於等待期間備有第二套消防衣應付緊急狀況，快速減少煙粒、碳粉塵及有毒微粒等對身體有害物質附著機率，確保健康及安全。

journalist: 許國楨

title: 進出火場沾染有害物質 消防衣清洗有眉角 - 即時新聞 - 自由健康網


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位於師大商圈的「天隆天第」首次列標、釋出4戶。(圖/翻攝Google)

財政部國產署近日公告第二都更分回宅標售案，共計7建案、25戶，其中首度列標、位於師大商圈的「天隆天第」釋出4戶，總價從6,068萬元起跳，最高1.17億元，每坪單價落在90~94萬元，而近期大熱門的「永德言葉」再釋出3戶，另外，「全坤威峰」、「翔譽雙子星」2建案再下殺約95折求售。

國產署指出，截至今年3月，國產署北區分署分回都更宅共220戶，10戶已撥用作社會住宅，辦理標售且標脫者148戶，為減輕管理成本，國產署積極以標售方式釋出供民間利用，去年標脫39戶，標售總金額為18億4,023萬餘元，本次公告的7處25戶都更宅，預定5月12日開標。

根據國產署公告，本次分回都更宅標售案中，位於師大商圈的有「耕曦」8戶、「正隆天第」4戶、大同區的「永德言葉」3戶、大安區的「忠泰鳳磐」1戶、萬華區「全坤威峰」2戶、「翔譽雙子星」，另外，新北板橋區的「昇陽文薈」釋出6戶，三重區的「翔譽雙子星」1戶，不過除了「正隆天第」首次列標，「全坤威峰」、「翔譽雙子星」打95折標售以外，其餘建案價格皆未變動。

以「全坤威峰」而言，1樓店面、5樓戶皆下殺百萬元，「翔譽雙子星」也降價約百萬元，以期在下月標脫。

journalist: 文/記者張瀞勻

taiwan-subdivisions: 北區 大同區 三重區 板橋區 大安區 新北 萬華區

title: 國產署下月標售25戶 精華區2案降價求售


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In this April 15, 2020 photograph, a Rohingya refugee woman holds an umbrella as she waits to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's...
 In this April 15, 2020 photograph, a Rohingya refugee woman holds an umbrella as she waits to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, a health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Co...
 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, a health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where ...
 In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where he and around 600 others live in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the capital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. “We ran away from the terrorists and came here, but now there’s the coronavirus, and we don’t know what will happen,” said Gassambe. (Photo/Sam Mednick)

 A Greek policeman wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus walks in front of a hotel where migrants gather on their balconies in Kranidi town a...
 A Greek policeman wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus walks in front of a hotel where migrants gather on their balconies in Kranidi town about 170 kilometers (106 miles) southwest of Athens, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The heads of Greece's pandemic response effort are visiting a refugee shelter in the south of the country after authorities confirmed a high number of COVID-19 infections at the site. The shelter at Kranidi hosts 470 asylum seekers and was placed in isolation Monday after a pregnant resident tested positive for the new coronavirus during a hospital visit. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, Rohingya refugees stand in line to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The...
 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, Rohingya refugees stand in line to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, plastic containers belonging to displaced people sit queued up in lines, waiting their turn to be filled wit...
 In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, plastic containers belonging to displaced people sit queued up in lines, waiting their turn to be filled with water from a well, at a makeshift camp for the internally displaced in Barsalogho, in northern Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

 This April 19, 2020 photo shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. Th...
 This April 19, 2020 photo shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

 This Sunday, April 19, 2020, photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province,...
 This Sunday, April 19, 2020, photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

 FILE - This file photo released by the Turkish humanitarian group IHH on April 6, 2020, aid workers of the group demonstrate to Syrian children how to...
 FILE - This file photo released by the Turkish humanitarian group IHH on April 6, 2020, aid workers of the group demonstrate to Syrian children how to properly wash hands, at a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (IHH via AP, File)

 This April 16, 2020 photograph shows the construction of a COVID-19 isolation ward and treatment center by the UNHCR at the Kutupalong refugee camp in...
 This April 16, 2020 photograph shows the construction of a COVID-19 isolation ward and treatment center by the UNHCR at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this April 12, 2020 photograph, Rohingya refugees walk through one of the arterial roads at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh....
 In this April 12, 2020 photograph, Rohingya refugees walk through one of the arterial roads at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In the world's largest refugee camp, in southern Bangladesh, aid workers are racing to build isolation facilities. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 There are over 70 million people worldwide who have been driven from their homes by war and unrest, up to 10 million are packed into refugee camps and informal settlements, and almost none have been tested for the coronavirus.
 While the relative isolation of many camps may have slowed the virus’ spread, none is hermetically sealed. Without testing, the virus can spread unchecked until people start showing symptoms. If it does, there will be few if any intensive care beds or ventilators. There might not even be gloves or masks.
 “Testing is in short supply even in New York and Norway, but it is nonexistent in most of the countries in the (global) south for the people we try to help,” Jan Egeland, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told The Associated Press.
 His group recently conducted a review of all 30 countries where it operates and found virtually no testing before people became sick.
 In Syria’s war-ravaged Idlib province, only one small health facility is equipped to receive suspected coronavirus cases. In Bangladesh, aid workers are racing to build isolation facilities in the world’s largest refugee camp. In two sprawling camps in Kenya, Somalis who survived decades of famine and war fear the worst is yet to come.
 “If it’s killing people daily in America, then what do you think will happen to us?” asked Mariam Abdi, a vegetable vendor in Kenya’s Dadaab camp, where 217,000 people live in endless rows of tents. “We will all perish.”
 In many camps, cramped conditions and poor infrastructure can make it impossible to practice social distancing and frequent hand-washing.
 Western countries, which by then may have contained their own outbreaks, will have to reckon with the fact that if the virus finds refuge among the world’s most vulnerable, it could return anytime.
 There are no official figures for the number of refugees who live in camps, but Egeland estimates they make up 10% to 15% of all refugees and displaced people, a population the U.N. estimates at over 70 million.
 Refugees have already tested positive in Italy, Germany, Iran, Australia and Greece, where authorities said Tuesday that 150 people living in a quarantined hotel for asylum-seekers had contracted the coronavirus.
 Most people who become infected experience mild to moderate symptoms. But the virus can cause severe illness and lead to death, particularly among the elderly and infirm.
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 A ‘MIRACLE’ THAT NO CASES HAVE BEEN FOUND
 The coronavirus has already appeared in Syria, where the decade-long civil war has displaced more than half of the population of 23 million. At least 350 health facilities have been bombed, mostly by the government. More than 900 medical staff have been killed and countless more have fled.
 But no cases have been reported yet in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where a government offensive displaced nearly a million people earlier this year and where authorities have carried out around 200 tests.
 Zaher Sahloul, a Syrian physician based in Chicago who heads MedGlobal, an international health NGO, calls that a “miracle” and says an outbreak there would be “catastrophic.”
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 ‘NO DOCTORS CAN SAVE US’
 There’s been little if any testing in Cox’s Bazar, in Bangladesh, where more than a million members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world’s largest refugee camp.
 Kate White, the emergency medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, said there is “very limited testing capacity” in Bangladesh, and most is in the capital.
 While cases have been reported in the district, none have been detected inside the camp.
 The U.N. refugee agency is building isolation and treatment centers that can house 150-200 patients.
 Sakina Khatun, who lives with her husband and seven children in a small bamboo and tarp hut, said “the virus will kill everything it touches” if it enters the camps. “No doctors can save us then.”
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 ‘IT WILL CERTAINLY COME BACK’
 There’s a similar sense of foreboding in conflict zones across Africa.
 In Burkina Faso, 800,000 people have fled attacks by jihadists in recent months.
 Aguirata Maiga says soap is so expensive for her that she has to choose between washing her children’s hands and their clothes.
 The country's fragile health system has only 60 intensive care beds and a handful of ventilators, for a population of around 20 million.
 In Kenya’s crowded Kakuma refugee camp, more than 190,000 Somali refugees live in tents and rely on 19 wells.
 There is no coronavirus testing at Kakuma or Dadaab, said the IRC’s Kenya health coordinator, John Kiogora. There are no intensive care units or ventilators, either.
 “If the coronavirus is spread from Europe, via Turkey, to Idlib, and gains a stronghold there, it will certainly come back to Europe,” said Egeland.
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 Krauss reported from Jerusalem, Jain from New Delhi and Anna from Johannesburg. Associated Press writers Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Samya Kullab in Baghdad, Christine Armario in Bogota, Colombia, and Scott Smith in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed.

journalist: By JOSEPH KRAUSS, RISHABH R. JAIN and CARA ANNA , Associated Press, Associated Press

title: Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world's refugee camps


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CECC head Chen Shih-chung. (CDC photo)
 CECC head Chen Shih-chung. (CDC photo)

 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Wednesday (April 22) announced that there was one new case of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total from the "Goodwill Fleet" to 28, and 426 overall.

During his daily press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) announced that there was one new case, again from Taiwan's ill-fated "Goodwill Fleet" (敦睦, Dunmu). The latest confirmed case, No. 426, is a male in his 20s who served as a trainee on the navy supply ship the Panshih (磐石).

The man had begun experiencing a fever, cough, and loss of the sense of taste starting on March 23. However, after taking medication, his symptoms subsided and he returned to his duties.

On April 18, he was placed in a quarantine center, where he underwent a test for the disease that came back negative. Because he continued to experience nasal congestion and abnormal olfactory function, the health department arranged for a second test and he was officially diagnosed with the disease on April 22.

Chen said that out of the 28 sailors in the "Goodwill Fleet" cluster event, 692 contacts have been traced by the health department. Of those persons, 446 are undergoing home isolation, while 246 have implemented self-health management.

Out of Taiwan's 426 cases reported since the coronavirus outbreak began, 343 were imported, 55 were local, and 28 came from the "Fleet of Friendship." Thus far, six have succumbed to the disease, while 236 have been released from hospital isolation.

The center will continue to trace the activities of the infected sailors in public places after disembarking from their ships and publish them on the internet. Chen reminded the public that if they found that they had been to the same places at the same time as the confirmed cases, they should undergo self-health management for the next 14 days.

Those who feel unwell are advised to call the toll-free disease prevention hotline at 1922. The center also recommends that when seeking medical attention, patients should proactively inform doctors of their travel history and all persons they recently came into contact with.

The following is a Google map created by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) showing all the known locations in Taiwan where the infected sailors visited.

journalist: By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

title: Taiwan reports only 1 new coronavirus case, again from 'Goodwill Fleet'


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CPBL Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions players.
 CPBL Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions players.
 (CNA photo)

 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) is the only league in the world playing, so the Taoyuan government said on Wednesday (April 22) it would stump up NT$2 million for English-language broadcasts until the end of the season.

The CPBL started giving trial English commentaries after the baseball season started April 11. Games are played behind closed doors and broadcast live on Eleven Sports Network and Twitter, for the first time since the league began in 1989.

Due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, most sports have shut up shop. This includes baseball, which is not being played professionally anywhere else in the world but Taiwan.

The English broadcast is by Richard Wang (王雲慶) and fellow commentator Wayne McNeil. They have done five English-language broadcasts, as of April 22, and the games mainly take place at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium.

Nearly 5 million views have been recorded for the five games on Eleven Sports Taiwan. The strong viewing figures have prompted the operator to extend the service for the remaining games of the season.

After talking to the home team Rakuten Monkeys and Eleven Sports, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) announced the city would commit NT$2 million to sponsor English-language broadcasts, starting May 1. He said this will enable overseas sports fans to enjoy Taiwan baseball games and also promote the city of Taoyuan.

journalist: By Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

title: Taiwan baseball gets international viewing boost


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"Taiwan (Not Part of China) Airlines." (Meme by Canadian designer)
 "Taiwan (Not Part of China) Airlines." (Meme by Canadian designer)

 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Canadian man created this meme of a China Airlines (CAL) jet with the name "Taiwan (Not Part of China) Airlines" as Taiwan mulls changing the name of the airline and other organizations to avoid confusion with communist China, which is drawing the ire of the world for its negligent handling of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

As Taiwan launches a "mask diplomacy" campaign to deliver badly needed, medical-grade face masks, the government has been frustrated by confusion over the country of origin of its jets that deliver the supplies — as the name "China" appears in massive letters on the fuselage. In a Facebook post released on April 11, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) stated he has an "open mind" toward calls to change CAL's name.

On Feb. 3, pro-Taiwan independence group Taiwan Republic Office (台灣國辦公室) called for the airline's name to be changed to "Formosa Airlines" (福爾摩沙航空) or "Yushan Airlines" (玉山航空). Similarly, on Feb. 20, the Taiwanese American Senior Society - East Bay & Washington DC launched a petition on the U.S. website Change.org called for the name of the national carrier to be changed to "Taiwan Airlines."

A 39-year-old graphic designer who has resided in Taiwan for 15 years told Taiwan News that he read some headlines about the recent confusion between Air China and China Airlines. He then saw a couple of redesigns for China Airlines, including one with a bubble tea theme, so he said he decided to make his own meme on Sunday (April 19), which is being shared on Facebook.

"Taiwan (Not Part of China) Airlines. (Meme by Canadian designer)

title: Photo of the Day: Taiwan (Not Part of China) Airlines


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In this April 12, 2020 photograph, Rohingya refugees walk through one of the arterial roads at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh....
 In this April 12, 2020 photograph, Rohingya refugees walk through one of the arterial roads at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. In the world's largest refugee camp, in southern Bangladesh, aid workers are racing to build isolation facilities. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where ...
 In this photo taken Sunday, March 29, 2020, Boureima Gassambe speaks to The Associated Press at the makeshift camp for the internally displaced where he and around 600 others live in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the capital, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. “We ran away from the terrorists and came here, but now there’s the coronavirus, and we don’t know what will happen,” said Gassambe. (Photo/Sam Mednick)

 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, a health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Co...
 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, a health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 A Greek policeman wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus walks in front of a hotel where migrants gather on their balconies in Kranidi town a...
 A Greek policeman wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus walks in front of a hotel where migrants gather on their balconies in Kranidi town about 170 kilometers (106 miles) southwest of Athens, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The heads of Greece's pandemic response effort are visiting a refugee shelter in the south of the country after authorities confirmed a high number of COVID-19 infections at the site. The shelter at Kranidi hosts 470 asylum seekers and was placed in isolation Monday after a pregnant resident tested positive for the new coronavirus during a hospital visit. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, Rohingya refugees stand in line to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The...
 In this April 15, 2020, photograph, Rohingya refugees stand in line to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this April 15, 2020 photograph, a Rohingya refugee woman holds an umbrella as she waits to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's...
 In this April 15, 2020 photograph, a Rohingya refugee woman holds an umbrella as she waits to collect food aid at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There's been little if any coronavirus testing in Cox's Bazar, where more than a million members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority are packed into the world's largest refugee camp. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, plastic containers belonging to displaced people sit queued up in lines, waiting their turn to be filled wit...
 In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, plastic containers belonging to displaced people sit queued up in lines, waiting their turn to be filled with water from a well, at a makeshift camp for the internally displaced in Barsalogho, in northern Burkina Faso. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

 This April 19, 2020 photo shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. Th...
 This April 19, 2020 photo shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

 This Sunday, April 19, 2020, photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province,...
 This Sunday, April 19, 2020, photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

 FILE - This file photo released by the Turkish humanitarian group IHH on April 6, 2020, aid workers of the group demonstrate to Syrian children how to...
 FILE - This file photo released by the Turkish humanitarian group IHH on April 6, 2020, aid workers of the group demonstrate to Syrian children how to properly wash hands, at a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (IHH via AP, File)

 This April 16, 2020 photograph shows the construction of a COVID-19 isolation ward and treatment center by the UNHCR at the Kutupalong refugee camp in...
 This April 16, 2020 photograph shows the construction of a COVID-19 isolation ward and treatment center by the UNHCR at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

 The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain an outbreak.
 Limited testing means the virus may be able to spread unchecked until people show symptoms.
 More than 70 million people worldwide have been forced out of their homes, according to the U.N. refugee agency, although the vast majority do not live in camps.
 Here’s a look at the areas of greatest concern.
 BANGLADESH
 More than a million Rohingya Muslims from neighboring Myanmar are packed into the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. Most fled a scorched-earth campaign by Myanmar’s government and Buddhist mobs in 2017. Aid workers are rushing to build isolation wards.
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 SYRIA
 The nearly 10-year civil war has displaced half of Syria’s population of 23 million. The northwestern Idlib province, home to 4 million people, has just one small health facility equipped to receive suspected coronavirus cases. Authorities have conducted around 200 tests, all of which came back negative.
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 IRAQ
 Iraq is home to some 1.4 million people displaced by the war against the Islamic State group, many of whom reside in camps. No coronavirus cases have been detected in the camps, but aid agencies have struggled to provide services amid restrictions imposed to prevent the virus' spread.
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 AFGHANISTAN
 Decades of war have displaced millions of Afghans, and most fled to neighboring Iran and Pakistan. Iran is battling the deadliest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East. The International Organization of Migration says 200,000 Afghans have returned from Iran this year, as the outbreak there accelerated. That could potentially contribute to the spread of the virus in Afghanistan, which is still mired in conflict and poverty.
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 SOUTH SUDAN
 In South Sudan, more than 180,000 people live in crowded U.N.-run camps across the country after a five-year civil war ended in 2018. South Sudan has reported just four cases, with none inside the camps, but one was a woman who had been in the country for five weeks.
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 SOMALIA
 More than 2.2 million people live in displacement camps after being uprooted by cycles of drought and the ever-present threat of jihadists. Another 400,000 Somalis live in two sprawling refugee camps in neighboring Kenya. There is no testing in either camp, nor are there ventilators.
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 CONGO
 More than 5 million people have been uprooted by conflict within Congo's borders, and more than half a million refugees have fled there from neighboring countries. Violence in the east has displaced thousands, even as the region has grappled with an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 2,260 people.
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 VENEZUELA
 Nearly 5 million Venezuelans have fled economic collapse, crossing by foot and bus into neighboring Colombia and other countries in one of the largest migrations in the world today. Many of the migrants live in crowded apartments in Bogota, which has the bulk of Colombia’s virus cases, and work as street vendors — jobs now prohibited.

journalist: By The Associated Press, Associated Press

title: A look at some of the world's worst refugee crises


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In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe swings during an informal workout at Willie ...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe swings during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Nnebe and thousands more players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Francisco Pedraza of Cal State East Bay throws during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in A...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Francisco Pedraza of Cal State East Bay throws during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Thousands of players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe throws as Canadian geese take the infield du...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe throws as Canadian geese take the infield during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Nnebe and thousands more players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, free agent Nick Adgar, left, speaks with Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe dur...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, free agent Nick Adgar, left, speaks with Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Nnebe and thousands more players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, University of California at Berkeley pitcher Jack Delmore, left, speaks with Santa Clara University cat...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, University of California at Berkeley pitcher Jack Delmore, left, speaks with Santa Clara University catcher Eamonn Lance during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Thousands of players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe warms up as he prepares to bat during an inf...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Milwaukee Brewers minor league baseball player Andre Nnebe warms up as he prepares to bat during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Nnebe and thousands more players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Joey Wagman pitches during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Thousands of...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, Joey Wagman pitches during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Thousands of players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. Wagman hopes to play baseball for the Israeli olympic team. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, University of California at Berkeley's Jack Delmore pitches during an informal workout at Willie Starge...
 In this photo taken on Friday, April 17, 2020, University of California at Berkeley's Jack Delmore pitches during an informal workout at Willie Stargell Field in Alameda, Calif. Thousands of players are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from six feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

 ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Andre Nnebe hollers over the breeze coming off the bay behind home plate and announces to the group, “First pitch, 2:10!”
 The Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer thanks college catcher Eamonn Lance for showing up because now there can be live batting practice, something Nnebe hasn't done since the coronavirus put a sudden halt on sports.
 “You saved the day,” Nnebe tells Lance.
 For this informal simulated game last week at a noted high school field, the catcher isn’t the only player wearing a mask. Nnebe stands in wearing a protective face covering, and same with the guy waiting in the on-deck circle.
 Nnebe and thousands more players like him are trying any way they can to stay ready amidst the uncertainty of whether there will even be a big league baseball season, let alone anything for the game's lower levels. They are trying to prepare while social distancing from 6 feet apart and without drawing a crowd as California is under a shelter-in-place order.
 For now, for 90 minutes anyway, Nnebe and seven others are in their element again, albeit far different than just six weeks ago.
 They relish talking everything baseball — the draft, how the ball is carrying, the future. Hearing that familiar crack of the bat is both refreshing and energizing, briefly taking the players' minds off the pressures and all that is going on in the world.
 They got a tip that the gates of Encinal High School's famous Willie Stargell Field were open, and decided to give it a try.
 “This is the closest thing to a game,” says University of California senior pitcher Jack Delmore, from Alameda. “I haven’t been excited in a while.”
 Three Canadian geese stand in as infielders, playing the shift, no less. Dozens more continuously honk from beyond left field, next to a dirt track that has been closed because of COVID-19, providing an impromptu rooting section.
 Multiple resistance bands hang from the chain link fence, cell phones perched on tripods outside the batter's box to capture video.
 After Nnebe's first round of swings, Joey Wagman walks out to offer a squirt of hand sanitizer to Lance.
 No high-fives. No handshakes. The new norm.
 Wagman previously pitched in Oakland's farm system, then spent the past two years in independent ball. The right-hander had been set to play for Israel in the Olympics this summer.
 “Need a little break?” Nnebe asks Lance at one point.
 “Let's keep rolling,” the Santa Clara catcher replies.
 It's back to work.
 Wagman shoots video as Delmore pitches. Soon, it's Wagman's turn on the mound. He has a little fun with the hitters: “Just so you know, I don't throw a cutter. That's a four-seam."
 “I feel bad to be a pitcher today. If it gets in the air it's going 50 feet further than it should,” declares Nick Adgar, a free agent outfielder who had his senior season at Menlo College interrupted.
 Adgar plans to play in the Mexican League, where big league veterans Rajai Davis and Bartolo Colón were set to be this year.
 A day after this workout last Friday, Adgar and Wagman hopped a fence at Lincoln Middle School across town for more hitting work. They always have an eye out for available fields.
 The virus outbreak has forced athletes to get creative.
 For most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. Older adults and people with existing health problems can experience severe illness, including pneumonia and death.
 “It's just crazy," Adgar says. “It's the same thing every day so it's stay ready for a date we don't really know when. We should be playing games right now. With the uncertainty, we have to stay as ready as we can.”
 At 6-feet-6 1/2 and 240 pounds, Nnebe hears people compare his frame to that of New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, a star from California's Central Valley.
 Nnebe, out of Santa Clara University, began his pro career last year and hit four home runs over 34 games in rookie ball for the Brewers.
 Nnebe and University of Washington right-hander Leo Nierenberg, both from Oakland, played catch at Lincoln Middle School last week, too.
 To get his swings in, Nnebe built a batting cage in the backyard at his house and ordered some basic gym equipment.
 “We've been going to different spots. With everything going on, I think no one really knows what's going to happen,” Nnebe says. “It might be big leagues only, it might be minor leagues, it might be nothing at all."
 “The guys I work out with it, it's kind of a mix of college and pro," he says. "We're just trying to stay as ready as possible because if it starts back up, you want to be as close to not missing a beat as you can."
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journalist: By JANIE McCAULEY , AP Baseball Writer, Associated Press

title: Minor leaguers, college players get creative to stay ready


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FILE - In this June 11, 1997 file photo, Chicago Bulls Scottie Pippen, right, embraces an exhausted Michael Jordan following their win in Game 5 of th...
 FILE - In this June 11, 1997 file photo, Chicago Bulls Scottie Pippen, right, embraces an exhausted Michael Jordan following their win in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz, in Salt Lake City. The flu-like illness Jordan fought through to lead the Bulls to a crucial victory in the 1997 NBA Finals created instant fodder for the virtue of perseverance. Pushing past boundaries, overcoming obstacles and adversity — that is part of the ethos of major competitive sports. That is how elite athletes become wired to win. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)

 FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2020, file photo, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is shown during the second half of an NBA basketball game ag...
 FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2020, file photo, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is shown during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings in Sacramento, Calif. Towns says his mother is hospitalized and in a medically-induced coma after contracting the new coronavirus. Towns talked about his mother's condition Wednesday, March 25, 2020, on his Instagram page and urged his followers to take COVID-19 seriously and practice social distancing. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The flu-like illness Michael Jordan fought through to lead the Chicago Bulls to a crucial victory in the 1997 NBA Finals created instant fodder for the virtue of perseverance.
 Pushing past boundaries, overcoming obstacles and adversity — that is part of the ethos of major competitive sports. That is how elite athletes become wired to win.
 It is also in direct conflict with the medical wisdom currently steering society in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Think about Jordan's "Flu Game" through the lens of the pandemic and social distancing. It's jarring.
 Seasons have been on pause for weeks with no end in sight. So, too, has the competitive drive of tens of thousands of the world's best athletes, the bottle corked by simple, sobering orders: Back off. Stay home.
 “This flew in the face of what they had been taught and socialized to do, which is, ‘Let’s play,'” said John Tauer, the men's basketball coach and psychology professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
 The safety of the living room replaced the comfort of the arena.
 “You really don’t know what the next day holds,” Buffalo Sabres star Jack Eichel said. ”Every morning you wake up, you don’t have to go to the rink, you don’t have to perform. ... You’re just trying to stay busy and keep your mind in a good, healthy place.”
 Eichel has spent some of his quarantine time reading “The Mindful Athlete,” a book by sports psychologist George Mumford, who worked with the Bulls and taught Jordan the art of meditation.
 More than two decades later, the brain plays a much bigger role in the way teams teach and guide their performers. Maintaining mental fitness during the pause could be as critical to success as remaining in peak physical condition simply because athletes are facing anxiety in unprecedented ways.
 “This may not be a crisis for many of us yet, but it’s still a big enough shift from our daily lives where it causes us to reflect and begin to say, ‘OK, when you pull something away from me that I identify with, how is this working for me? Is this going the way I want it to?’” said Justin Anderson, team psychologist for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
 In an occupation built on physical performance, athletes have a short career window, and opportunities to excel are few. For all the financial cushion many have, the identity loss during the shutdown has been severe. Their most elemental function as an employee has disappeared.
 In the NFL, a letter from the league and the players' union sent to players this month included advice on how to deal with the angst, addressing loneliness, stress and other subjects. The global union for soccer players surveyed members and found increased levels of anxiety and depression.
 “It’s a really strange environment, especially for athletes when they are used to being on the field, used to being in the gym, used to working out every day,” said Carlos Bocanegra, Atlanta United's technical director.
 College and high school athletes were hit hard, their careers framed by eligibility limits. Last month, when the NCAA shut down all activity, coaches scrambled to keep tabs on their players and keep spirits up.
 Tauer's team, ranked fourth in Division III, was supposed to play rival St. John's in the national tournament until it was canceled. In his season-ending speech, he encouraged his players to apply their unique experience of being on a team toward the new reality.
 “Let's do what a great teammate does, and that means think about the greater good as opposed to what my immediate wants might be right now,” Tauer said.
 The Timberwolves made player wellness one of their top priorities when Gersson Rosas took over a year ago as president of basketball operations. He envisioned an innovative, holistic approach to player development to support the pursuit of a championship.
 When the pandemic prompted the NBA to suspend the season, the Timberwolves were mired at the bottom of the Western Conference standings. Off the court, however, they were prepared to help keep the team as intact as possible while forced to sequester.
 “Long before this happened, we valued certain things that in a crisis become even more apparent and important,” said Robby Sikka, the team's vice president for basketball performance and technology. Sikka cited valuing the players' health and nutrition, being player-centric and family oriented from the beginning.
 The job created for Sikka — to integrate medical, technological and analytical knowledge and resources for improving wellness off the court and performance on it — has been vital. The week before the league shut down, he warned players, “This will be your 9/11.”
 Since then, he has helped coordinate player efforts to not only stay in shape with the practice facility closed but make sure mental health needs are being met. He sees it as setting up lifelong coping skills. Anderson has paid particular attention to anxiety management.
 “It’s not something you either have or you don’t have. It’s something you develop, much like their shooting percentage or any other skill that they’re working on,” Anderson said.
 Just because they're some of the greatest athletes in the world doesn't mean they don't have flaws.
 “At the end of the day, they have families, they have needs, they have challenges, that, if we choose to ignore them, we’re choosing to ignore them as individuals,” Rosas said. "That’s an area where we don’t want to fail.”
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journalist: By DAVE CAMPBELL , AP Sports Writer, Associated Press

title: Mental stress for athletes: From 'let's play' to 'stay home'


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Taiwan's Goodwill Fleet visiting Palau in March 2020 (screengrab from Taiwanese embassy in Palau Facebook page)
 Taiwan's Goodwill Fleet visiting Palau in March 2020 (screengrab from Taiwanese embassy in Palau Facebook page)

 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After at least 27 Navy officers and cadets were confirmed as coronavirus cases following a “Goodwill Fleet” visit to Palau, all 24 members of staff at the Taiwanese embassy and 24 local citizens tested negative, reports said Wednesday (April 22).

The outbreak took Taiwan’s number of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) patients past the 400-mark and caused concern that the Navy members might have infected other people across the country since their return.

The officers spent March 12-15 in Palau, arrived back in Kaohsiung on April 9 and were allowed to leave their ship on April 15. The government published a list of 90 locations which the infected soldiers had visited after their return.

In Palau, 24 Taiwanese working at the embassy, members of aid teams and their partners were tested for the coronavirus, and so were 24 Palauan citizens who had been in contact with the military delegation, CNA reported.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Wednesday that all 48 individuals had tested negative.

Palau is one of Taiwan’s 15 remaining official diplomatic allies. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, the Pacific state has received assistance from Taiwan with prevention and testing.

journalist: By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

title: Taiwan embassy staff in Palau tests negative for coronavirus after navy outbreak


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Oil tank train cars sit idle Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in East Chicago, Ind. The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it and we're running ...
 Oil tank train cars sit idle Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in East Chicago, Ind. The world is awash in oil, there's little demand for it and we're running out of places to put it. That in a nutshell explains this week's strange and unprecedented action in the market for crude oil futures contracts, where traders essentially offered to pay someone else to deal with the oil they were due to have delivered next month. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

 A currency trader talks on the phone at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22...
 A currency trader talks on the phone at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Asian stock markets fell further Wednesday as oil prices recovered some of their record-setting losses amid anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic's mounting economic damage. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

 A currency trader gestures at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. As...
 A currency trader gestures at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Asian stock markets fell further Wednesday as oil prices recovered some of their record-setting losses amid anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic's mounting economic damage. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

 Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, 202...
 Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Asian stock markets fell further Wednesday as oil prices recovered some of their record-setting losses amid anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic's mounting economic damage. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

 A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, ...
 A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Asian stock markets fell further Wednesday as oil prices recovered some of their record-setting losses amid anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic's mounting economic damage. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

 BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday as oil prices edged lower amid anxiety about the coronavirus pandemic's mounting economic damage.
 Benchmarks in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia retreated while Shanghai was little-changed after Wall Street suffered its biggest decline in weeks.
 Oil prices slipped further after hitting an all-time low this week. The fall has rattled investors because it adds to evidence of the depth of a global economic downturn with factories idled and consumers ordered to stay home.
 The plunge in oil prices “has stirred wider concerns of a sharp economic slowdown,” Hayaki Narita of Mizuho Bank said in a report.
 Global oil demand is set to drop to levels last seen in the mid-1990s. Producers can’t slow their production fast enough. Storage tanks are running out of room.
 Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell 0.7% to 19,137.95 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 10 points lower to 23,805.56. The Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.5% to 2,840.05.
 The Kospi in Seoul gained 0.5% to 1,888.50 and Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 picked up 0.5% to 5,429.10.
 India's Sensex opened up 1.3% at 31,034.91. New Zealand's main index fell 1.4% and Singapore was down 1.3%.
 The price of a barrel of the benchmark grade of U.S. oil to be delivered in June lost 87 cents to $10.70 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It plunged 43% the previous session to $11.57.
 On Monday, the price of a U.S. barrel to be delivered next month fell to below zero. That meant traders were paying others to take it off their hands so they wouldn't need to find places to store the swelling surplus.
 The price for oil to be delivered in June didn't hit zero, partly because storage isn't as pressing a problem.
 Brent crude, the price standard for international oils, lost another $2.97 cents to $16.34 per barrel in London. On Tuesday, it fell 24.4% to $19.33.
 “Global markets are struggling mightily with a temporary but overwhelming demand drop,” said Stephen Innes of AxiCorp in a report. He said the June contract also could “fall prey to storage infrastructure saturation.”
 On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 fell 3.1% to 2,736.56.
 Some 94% of stocks in the index declined. That included winners in the new stuck-at-home economy. Netflix slipped 0.8% before it announced its quarterly results that included a 23% rise in global memberships.
 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.7% to 23,018.88. The Nasdaq was of 3.5% to 8,263.23.
 Treasury yields fell further, indicating investors were shifting more money into bonds as a safe haven. The yield, or the difference between the market price and what a buyer will receive if the bond is held to maturity, on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 0.55% from 0.62% late Monday.
 Also Tuesday, the U.S. Senate approved a virus aid bill worth nearly $500 billion. It would provide more loans to small businesses and aid to hospitals.
 Georgia’s governor, meanwhile, announced plans late Monday to allow gyms, hair salons and other businesses to reopen as early as Friday.
 Still, economic data are bleak. A report Tuesday showed the steepest drop for U.S. sales of previously occupied homes since 2015.
 Pessimists say the market’s rally has been overdone and that a premature reopening of the economy could lead to only more flareups of infections.
 The dollar declined to 107.59 yen from Tuesday's 107.68 yen. The euro was unchanged at $1.0853.

journalist: By JOE McDONALD , AP Business Writer, Associated Press

title: Asian stocks mixed after Wall St hit by oil market turmoil