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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in the capital, Taipei, and the city around it, bringing curbs for a period of two weeks that will shut many venues and restrict gatherings in the wake of 180 new domestic infections.<\/p>

Medical workers prepare to perform COVID-19 rapid tests on residents, following an increasing number of locally transmitted cases in Taipei, Taiwan, May 15, 2021. REUTERS\/Ann Wang<\/figcaption>

The new rules will not mean offices, schools or restaurants have to close, but will cause the shutdown of cinemas and other entertainment spots, while limiting family get-togethers to five people indoors and 10 outdoors.<\/p>\n

For the first time, masks will have to be worn outdoors.<\/p>\n

Taipei\u2019s government has already ordered bars, nightclubs and similar venues to shut.<\/p>\n

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said a \u201clevel of risk\u201d in certain hot spots, such as Taipei\u2019s gritty Wanhua district, had spurred the decision to raise the alert level.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly by doing this can infections be dealt with and controlled,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je urged people to stay home as much as possible, adding that schools should teach online.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDuring this time, if you have nothing on, then stay at home and don\u2019t go out, and if you do, wear a mask to reduce infection from droplets,\u201d said Ko, a doctor by training.<\/p>\n

-President Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s spokesman said she would reduce the number of \u201cunnecessary meetings\u201d or public events. The presidential office is close to Wanhua.<\/p>\n

The rising community infections unnerved the stock market this week, but at the same news conference, Premier Su Tseng-chang reiterated that the island\u2019s economic fundamentals remain good.<\/p>\n

Deputy Finance Minister Frank Juan told Reuters authorities would watch market reaction on Monday, adding that he did not rule out calling a meeting of the National Stabilisation Fund, which the government can use to smooth large fluctuations.<\/p>\n

Investors should act rationally, he said, pointing out that only a few sectors would be affected by the curbs, such as tourism, rather than the island\u2019s crucial foreign trade.<\/p>\n

The new restrictions do not apply to the chip-manufacturing hub of Hsinchu, and are unlikely to affect exports of semiconductors, a global shortage of which has shut some car factories.<\/p>

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Taiwan has millions of vaccine doses on order from Moderna Inc and AstraZeneca Plc, though only a small number have arrived from the latter due to global shortages and vaccination rates remain low.<\/p>\n

More vaccines will start arriving next month, Tsai has said.<\/p>\n

Since the pandemic began, Taiwan has reported fewer than 1,500 cases among a population of about 24 million, most of them imported from abroad, but a recent rise in community transmissions has spooked residents.<\/p>\n

The island has never gone into a full lockdown and its people are used to life carrying on near normal, despite the pandemic ranging in many other parts of the world.<\/p>\n

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