VIGILANCE: While two of the cases are family members of a nurse, there is no sign of community spread and the source of infection is identifiable, the CECC saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
CECC reports four more Taoyuan cases
VIGILANCE: While two of the cases are family members of a nurse, there is no sign of community spread and the source of infection is identifiable, the CECC said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported four new domestic COVID-19 cases associated with a cluster infection at a Taoyuan hospital.
Since the first case was identified on Tuesday last week, five healthcare workers two doctors and three nurses at the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Taoyuan General Hospital have tested positive for the virus.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that two of the four new cases are the husband and daughter of a nurse (case No. 863) who had earlier been confirmed to have COVID-19.
(CNA photo) The first case of influenza with severe complications during the current flu season, which begins in October and ends the following March in Taiwan, was not reported until late December, a senior official at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday. A 77-year-old woman was confirmed on Dec. 28 as having developed severe complications after being infected with a flu virus, later determined to be the subtype H3N2 of the influenza A virus (A/H3N2), said Kuo Hung-wei (郭宏偉), director of the CDC s Epidemic Intelligence Center. The patient, who was not inoculated during the current flu season, was the first case of flu with severe complications this season, Kuo said, noting that in the past, the first severe cases in the flu season were always recorded before December.