COVID-19: Infected diplomats, group of 44 arrive from India
EVACUATION: Two diplomats arrived on a chartered flight arranged by their insurance firm, while 44 people, including three foreigners, arrived on a flight via Japan
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter, with CNA
Two Taiwanese diplomatic personnel infected with COVID-19 have returned from India for treatment, while 44 other people separately returned on a Japan Airlines flight, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India has reported six confirmed COVID-19 cases two diplomats and four Indian employees with one of them seriously ill.
The center’s deputy director-general is reportedly among the patients, although the ministry on Wednesday said it could not divulge the patients’ identities.
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The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported seven new imported cases of COVID-19.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the seven all provided negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results from within three days of boarding a plane to Taiwan.
Cases No. 971 and No. 975 are a woman and a man from Paraguay who are in their 20s and came to Taiwan on Friday to study, he said.
They had been staying at a centralized quarantine facility, where they were given PCR tests, and the results came back positive yesterday, Chen said.
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