COVID-19: Police fine entertainment venues defying virus rules

• By Jason Pan / Staff reporter

Authorities over the weekend carried out checks at entertainment facilities throughout the nation, fining businesses for breaching disease prevention rules.

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Wednesday imposed a nationwide level 3 COVID-19 alert, after level 3 alerts were implemented in Taipei and New Taipei City on Saturday last week, requiring KTVs, dance clubs and related entertainment businesses to remain closed until May 28.

Police in Changhua County yesterday reported that they had fined a bar NT$60,000 for opening despite CECC orders, and found women from Vietnam and Thailand allegedly involved in prostitution.

Officials in Nantou County yesterday said that they had found contraventions at 11 high-risk…