‘CONTAINED’: The CECC is not considering locking down the hospital where the infections were detected, as their source has been found, Chen Shih-chung saidBy Lin Hui-chin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) Taiwan reported a new domestically transmitted case of COVID-19 on Sunday involving a doctor who works in the same hospital as three other medical workers confirmed to have the disease over the past week, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported one domestic and seven imported cases of COVID-19, involving people arriving from the Philippines, Indonesia, the US, South Africa and Russia.
At an impromptu press conference at 10pm, the CECC said in its testing of another 452 workers at a hospital in northern Taiwan where two domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases involving a doctor and a nurse were reported earlier this week, one tested positive.
Two cases are workers from the Philippines in their 20s who arrived in Taiwan on Dec. 24 last year and presented negative test reports taken within three days of boarding
Taipei, Jan. 16 (CNA) Taiwan on Saturday reported seven additional imported COVID-19 cases that originated in the Philippines, Indonesia, the United States, South Africa and Russia, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 850 in the country since the pandemic began.