Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/13
By: Lilian Wu

Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said

A check point for MERS set up in Seoul in June. (CNA file photo)

Tuesday it is keeping a close eye on a development in South Korea, where a patient who was declared cured of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reportedly has been reinfected.

The patient was discharged from hospital Oct. 1 after recovering from a MERS infection, but developed a fever the next day and was diagnosed as having been infected again with the deadly virus, said CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang(莊人祥).

South Korea had planned to announce Oct. 29 the end of the MERS outbreak there but may have to postpone the date, according to foreign wire service reports.     [FULL  STORY]