COVID-19: Cluster infection has same virus strain: CECC
By Lin Hui-chin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced that a COVID-19 cluster infection at Taoyuan General Hospital shared the same virus strain, allaying concerns over the unidentified source of infection of case No. 889.
The center also reported two new imported cases, but no new domestic cases for the fourth straight day.
The cluster infection had affected 15 people, and it has been about two weeks since case No. 838, a doctor at the hospital, was confirmed to have been infected by case No. 812, a Taiwanese returning from the US, during treatment.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported the fifth COVID-19 case in a cluster infection at a Taoyuan hospital, where four other medical workers were confirmed to have been infected over the past week.
The latest case is a nurse who had tested negative on Tuesday last week, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, told a news conference.
However, on Thursday, she developed symptoms, such as nasal congestion and a cough, and a second test yesterday found that she was infected, Chen said.
She is the head nurse of a ward where two
‘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
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Fattening up Taiwan: the nation’s childhood obesity problem
Children from lower income and less educated areas are shorter and chubbier than their higher income counterparts
By Michael Turton / Contributing reporter
I’m entering my fourth decade here, but the changes in Taiwan I’ve experienced have largely been so positive that I can find little to be nostalgic about. I don’t miss the private phones that cost one New Taiwan dollar to use, the mad traffic or the constant queue jumping. But I do ponder my students and from time to time, wonder where the skinny ones all went to.