Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) Taiwan on Monday confirmed one new imported case of COVID-19 but reported no locally transmitted cases for the second consecutive day, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
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Chen Shih-chung (left) and Chuang Jen-hsiang at an emergency press briefing Monday morning. Photo courtesy of the CECC
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Monday there is no truth to a media report that Taiwan has secured 100,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through diplomatic sources in the United States. There is no such thing, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said at an emergency press briefing in Taipei.
Chen was responding to a front page story in the United Daily News on Monday, which said Taiwan had obtained 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer through diplomatic sources in the U.S.
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FIRST TO KNOW: If Taiwan was set to receive vaccines on Thursday, the center would already know and would have made a public announcement, the health minister said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday denied a report that Taiwan had obtained 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and that they were expected to arrive on Thursday.
The CECC would officially announce the latest progress on procuring vaccines as soon as it is confirmed, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
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CECC reports one new imported case
MYSTERY: The man had contracted the virus while working in Japan, then tested negative seven times before the latest test, which returned positive yesterday
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported one imported case of COVID-19 a Taiwanese man who had contracted the virus in Japan and tested negative several times before returning to Taiwan, before testing positive again.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the man, case No. 913, went to Japan for work in January last year.
The man, in his 30s, was exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19 at his workplace, so he was tested on Dec. 25 last year and was isolated in hospital when the result returned positive, Chen said.