In news from and about Taiwan this morning,

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung says the Central Epidemic Command Center has
instructed local governments to inspect 465 quarantine hotels as a response
to three coronavirus cluster infections.

The clusters have been detected in hotels in Taipei and Taoyuan and currently
involve nine cases.

According to Chen, 395 of the quarantine hotels have been so far been
inspected and some 100 of them have been ordered to address problems
identified by local health authorities.

Chen says the epidemic command center will also begin identifying rooms in
quarantine hotels that have structural issues that could result in disease
transmission.

The hotels will be then banned from using those rooms.

A total of 88 Omicron variant infections have been recorded so far here in
Taiwan.

Health officials say 50 of those patients have had mild symptoms, while the
other 38 are asymptotic.