After the government's decision on Tuesday to call off main celebrations for the Taiwan Lantern Festival, an annual celebration to mark the Lunar New Year next month, more cities have followed suit, including Kaohsiung and Taipei.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je told reporters on Wednesday that the city was postponing the city's lantern festival events and cancelling the customary Lunar New Year street market in the fashionable Dihua Street area.
The presidential office said late Tuesday that it would not host its Lunar New Year Reception, and that it would co-ordinate with the health authorities about whether President Tsai Ing-wen might visit temples during the holiday, as she would normally.
The government has quarantined and tested hundreds of people connected to the outbreak at the hospital in Taoyuan, traced to a doctor infected while treating a Covid-19 patient.