Four Taipei Main Station Cleaners Test Positive 北車4清潔員確診 商店街停業3天消毒

All stores on the first floor of Taipei Main Station were closed for three days for disinfection after four cleaners tested positive. They will reopen on the 28th.

All stores on the first floor of Taipei Main Station are closed. There are announcements posted on doors saying they have been closed for three days for disinfection and will reopen on July 28. The Taipei City Government confirmed that four workers from a cleaning company used by Taiwan Railway Administration at Taipei Main Station tested positive between July 22 and 24. Two live in Taipei and the other two live in New Taipei City. The locations they cleaned include Taipei Main Station's ticket office on the first floor as well as lavatories. Lavatories in three sections have been closed for additional disinfection. They will remain closed for three days. However, the ticket office is operational.

Traveler: “I tried to get tickets as fast as possible. (So you didn't stay too long.) That's right.”

Traveler: “They've probably disinfected everything, so it should be fine. I should be fine as long as I maintain good hygienic practices."

Taipei's Department of Health has identified potential contacts. It has also asked relevant authorities to make lists of TRA patrol personnel and first-floor store personnel to ask them to conduct self-health management. They will be required to produce negative tests in order to go back to work. Meanwhile, John Black Tea Company posted on Facebook on July 26 that a part-time employee at a store in Taipei's Neihu District lost the sense of taste on July 24 and took a rapid test, which came back positive. A PCR test on July 25 confirmed the result. The store has been closed for disinfection, and 17 colleagues who are potential contacts have been identified for testing. All rapid tests have come back negative. The company also tested all employees on July 26 and said that any store would be closed if someone tests positive. New Taipei City Deputy Mayor Liu Ho-jan spoke about the possibility that the city will purchase its own vaccines during an interview. He said the central government needs to make the rules of the game clear.

Liu Ho-jan, Deputy New Taipei City Mayor: “We've always felt that the central government needs to make the rules about vaccines clear. We've seen rules for companies and religious organizations. If you want to let local governments purchase them, then we don't want to see a new set of rules.”

New Taipei City has been hit hard by the epidemic, and Liu gave the city's disease prevention efforts a score of 80. He said he deducted 20 points because there have been many uncertain factors. The biggest issue is the adding of cases retroactively, which meant that contacts of confirmed cases were not immediately identified or quarantined, resulting in disease prevention breaches.

台鐵台北車站1樓商店街全都拉起鐵門，張貼公告，停業三天消毒，28日才會復業，北市府證實，台鐵台北車站外包清潔公司22日到24日累計有4名清潔人員確診，2名住在台北市、2名住在新北市，由於確診清潔人員平日工作範圍包含台北車站售票大廳1樓和1樓夾層廁所，目前包含東1、東3和西3門廁所關閉加強消毒、靜置三天，但車站售票作業照常運作不受影響。

旅客表示：「（取票)我就快進快出這樣。（盡量不要停留太久? ) 是。」

旅客表示：「他們應該都會做清消，所以應該還好，本身做好清潔消毒，應該是還好。」

北市衛生局除了匡列接觸者，也要求相關單位針對台鐵巡查人員及1樓門市人員造冊與健康管理，復業時須持陰性證明才能上班。而台北內湖的飲料店約翰紅茶公司也傳出確診，26日清晨兩點在臉書上公布，24日一名工讀生，疑似出現味覺喪失後，當天自主快篩陽性，25日PCR陽性確診，內湖門市立即停業消毒，並匡列17位有接觸史的同仁，目前快篩為陰性，26日約翰紅茶也對全體員工篩檢，強調只要出現陽性反應，該門市立即停業。而新北市副市長劉和然接受媒體專訪，對於新北市要不要自購疫苗，劉和然也向中央喊話，希望中央把遊戲規則講清楚。

新北市副市長 劉和然表示：其實疫苗，我們一直都覺得，中央，你把遊戲規則講清楚，像現在我們看到企業界，你的規則出來了，宗教團體，你的規則出來了，你如果要讓地方縣市自己出來買，我們也不希望大家各自為政。」

身為疫情重災區的新北，劉和然對於新北市的防疫工作打了80分，對於被扣的20分，劉和然認為，除了許多不確定因素外，最大的問題就是校正回歸的時間落差，導致確診者的接觸者未即時匡列、隔離，產生防疫破口。