New Taipei is banning all on-site dining from Thursday for a week after genome sequencing for a preschool cluster infection in the northern city determined several of the cases were infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) announced Wednesday.
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