Student at Kaohsiung university a 'weak' positive case and unlikely to be infectious, according to Central Epidemic Command Center

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/06/26
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer\

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — All 123 people in Taiwan in close contact with a Japanese student diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) after her return home have tested negative, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced Friday (June 26).

A first batch of tests on 109 individuals were negative on Thursday (June 25), with results for the remaining 14 made public by the CECC at a news conference Friday. The 20-year-old woman, who had been studying at a university in Kaohsiung City, was a “weak” positive case and unlikely to be infectious, CECC Spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) told reporters.
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