The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported four local cases of COVID-19.
They tested positive during home isolation, posing little infection risk to local communities, said Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is the CECC’s spokesman.
The four cases initially tested negative, but additional tests confirmed that they had the disease, Chuang said.
They are aged between 20 and 50, and live in Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan and Tainan, he said.
The Taipei and New Taipei City cases are linked to a cluster involving members of a religious gathering in Taipei on Feb. 13, Chuang said.
The Taoyuan case
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported four new domestic COVID-19 cases, all residents of Miaoli County and Kaohsiung, bringing the number of clusters or individual cases with unknown sources it is monitoring to 11.
The new case in Miaoli County is a woman in her 40s who operates a stall at Jhunan Second Market (竹南第二公有零售市場), a traditional market in Jhunan Township (竹南), the CECC and county government said.
The woman got tested after learning that two people in a cluster linked to a gravel supplier in Kaohsiung visited the market prior to testing positive, although they did not visit