CECC reports new imported virus case
STAYING PUT: More than 4,300 people linked to a cluster infection at a hospital in Taoyuan remain in home isolation, while 536 have been released, the CECC said
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported an imported case of COVID-19, a Taiwanese man who returned from the US and tested positive after going to work for a week.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the man, who is in his 40s, traveled to the US for work in October last year, and the center believes he had been exposed to a confirmed case there.
Taipei mulls lifting Indonesian entry ban
Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan is considering lifting an entry ban on Indonesian migrant workers if demand for workers from the Southeast Asian country requires it, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said on Tuesday.
In December last year, an indefinite ban on the recruitment of Indonesian migrant workers was imposed, as the reliability of the country’s COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests was questioned.
Indonesian officials have since discussed the matter with Taiwanese representatives in the country, and the representatives asked Indonesia to provide a list of certified PCR testing facilities there.
New infection in Taoyuan reported
FAMILY MEMBER: The case is the grandmother of a nurse who is part of a cluster of infections at a hospital. She had been isolating since last week
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported a domestic case of COVID-19 linked to a cluster infection at a Taoyuan hospital. The center also published some of the public spaces that three previously confirmed cases in the cluster visited from Tuesday last week to Monday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the new case No. 870 is a woman in her 60s who is the grandmother of case No. 839, a nurse at the hospital whose infection was confirmed on Tuesday last week.
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