Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (right) hosts Tuesday s COVID-19 press briefing. CNA photo Jan. 12, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) A doctor in a northern Taiwan hospital has been confirmed as one of two locally infected COVID-19 cases in Taiwan Tuesday, the first time a local physician has come down with the disease since the outbreak began.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) believes the male doctor, who is in his 30s, was infected with the coronavirus while he was treating a confirmed COVID-19 patient in the hospital where he works.
The CECC did not identify the name of the hospital and where it was located.
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A customer wearing a protective mask, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, waits for his order at a market in Taipei, Taiwan. - Reuters TAIPEI, Jan 12 (dpa): Taiwan on Tuesday announced two imported coronavirus cases and two locally transmitted cases, including a Taiwanese doctor treating a Covid-19 patient.
As of Tuesday, Taiwan, an island of 23.6 million people, had reported just 838 infections, including 741 imported cases, with seven virus-related deaths. Currently, 101 Covid-19 patients are receiving medical treatment in hospitals in Taiwan.
Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung told a news conference that the ill doctor, who works in a hospital in northern Taiwan, last week treated a seriously ill Covid-19 patient in a negative pressure isolation ward.
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CNA photo Jan. 12, 2020
Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan closed lower Tuesday as investors locked in their earlier gains amid caution toward the U.S. market outlook after the authorities there warned of security threats at President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration next week, dealers said.
Contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), however, continued an uptrend on the back of optimism that the company will deliver positive leads in an investor conference scheduled for Thursday, helping the broader market limit losses, the dealers said.
In addition, reports that a mass evacuation of patients from a northern Taiwan hospital late Monday implying possible COVID-19 infections within the hospital sparked buying among virus prevention stocks, the dealers said.
A room in the government-designated quarantine center, provided by CECC official Wang Pi-sheng.
Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) Taiwan will start providing a further 1,400 hotel rooms for temporary quarantine purposes from Thursday to meet increasing demand for quarantine accommodation for overseas arrivals as the Lunar New Year holiday in February draws near, the Tourism Bureau said Tuesday.
From Jan. 14-Feb. 11, the 1,400 hotel rooms in 16 cities and counties other than Yilan, Hualien and Taitung and the offshore Kinmen, Penghu and Lienchiang counties will be available, the bureau said.
The strong demand can also be attributed to the Central Epidemic Command Center s stricter quarantine rules that will come into effect on Jan. 15, requiring people arriving to Taiwan from overseas to have an ensuite bathroom in which to spend their quarantine, according to the bureau.
CONTACTS TRACED: The doctor and his nurse girlfriend, who also tested positive, have only mild symptoms, but their cases have led to hundreds of people being testedBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter