CECC reports seven imported COVID-19 infections
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported seven new imported cases of COVID-19. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the seven all provided negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results from within three days of boarding a plane to Taiwan. Cases No. 971 and No. 975 are a woman and a man from Paraguay who are in their 20s and came to Taiwan on Friday to study, he said. They had been staying at a centralized quarantine facility, where they were given PCR tests, and the results came back positive yesterday, Chen said. ...