Taiwan to downgrade COVID-19 classification, disband task force

Taiwan said Thursday it will downgrade its classification of COVID-19 on May 1 to a less severe category of communicable diseases, such as flu, and disband a task force established to deal with the virus in the early stage of the pandemic.As the domestic coronavirus situation on the island has remained stable, with infections remaining low, COVID-19 will be designated as a Category 4 communicable disease next Monday instead of Category 5. Other infectious diseases covered by Category 5 include yellow fever and the Ebola virus.The Central Epidemic Command Center, which was established on Jan…READ FULL ARTICLE