Taiwan postpones referendums amid COVID-19 concerns

The two most important ones are on whether to ban pork containing a leanness-enhancing additive, while the other concerns whether to change the site of a planned new liquefied natural gas terminal to protect the maritime environment.

Last year, the government approved pork containing ractopamine, which is banned in the European Union and China though widely used in the United States, despite the objections of the main opposition party, the Kuomintang, on safety grounds. Speaking shortly before Lee and at a separate news conference, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said the market at the centre of the new outbreak has been closed for three days, and there were likely to be more infections confirmed as the results of tests came through.Advertisement

Chen announced 57 new domestic cases, but said 41 cases at the market had yet to be included in the official tally. Taipei's city government only confirmed those cases early Friday morning. The market is in Taipei's Wanhua district, a hot spot where many of the initial infections in May were first reported.

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