More than Ten New COVID-19 Cases Reported in Taoyuan 桃園傳增本土逾10例 共10校3補習班停課

COVID-19 infection continues to spread in Taoyuan. At present, there are ten local confirmed cases including students and teachers. A total of ten schools and three cram schools have been ordered to suspend classes for seven to ten days.

The rise in COVID-19 infection continues in Taoyuan. The news comes that many students have tested positive. The Taoyuan education department made an emergency announcement on April 1 that schools will be off for seven to ten days for various elementary schools, vocational high schools, kindergartens, and cram schools with positive cases found. One professor and a student at Chung Yuan Christian University have also been confirmed with COVID-19 and school will be off for ten days. A total of ten schools and three cram schools have been ordered to stop school temporarily.

A vocational high school principal in Zhongli District: “Taoyuan's Department of Public Health will directly contact students and teachers from this certain class who have come in close contact with COVID-19 cases and update them on what to do next. The school will provide students and teachers in other classes with rapid test kits, according to orders from the health department.”

Parent in Taoyuan: “( Reporter: “When did you get notified to come in for PCR tests?”) This morning. (This morning, did you know that school is going to be off for a while?) Yeah, starting today. (Starting today, are you worried?) Yeah, of course, I haven't experienced this before.”

More than ten COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Taoyuan on April 1. The city government has been doing contact tracing and reported that quarantined workers from the earlier Datan Power Plant COVID-19 cluster have been tested negative for the second round.

Cheng Wen-tsan, Taoyuan City Mayor: “There have been a couple of infections reported from an e-commerce platform workshop today, and infection cases seemed to have come in contact with people at schools. We'll offer more detail today during the 2 p.m. press conference.”

Taoyuan City Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan said that schools will be off for 10 days for all students and teachers in classes with confirmed cases found and they need to do PCR tests during quarantine. For other classes that do not have direct contact with confirmed cases, school will be off for seven days. Individuals would need to do either PCR or rapid tests depending on the development of the infections at school. 

疫情不斷燒進校園，桃園市再傳多名學生採檢陽性，尚未列案號。教育局緊急宣布，新增2國小、1高職、2幼兒園、2補習班確診者班級停課10天，其餘班級停課7天。中原大學也累計1教授1學生染疫，全校停課10天。目前全市累計10校3補習班停課。

中壢區某高職校長表示：「密切接觸者的這個班級，衛生局都會主動跟他們做連繫，其他的班級，衛生局的做法是，我們學校提供快篩。」

新冠疫情升溫，桃園今日傳出本土確診個案破10例，市府已經做了疫調匡列，下午記者會詳細說明，已知大潭電廠廠區的二採都是陰性。

桃園市長鄭文燦表示：「今天有一個電商的網購工作坊，有職場群聚感染，也有波及到幾個學校，下午2時的記者會，我們會再來公布詳細情況。」

針對學校師生確診採檢部份，鄭文燦表示，原則上同班跟跨班一律要做PCR，也要停課10天做居隔，風險較低的其他班級，預防性停課7天，採檢以實際的疫情分為做PCR或是快篩處理。