CROSS-STRAIT COOPERATION: The agency has asked China to allow it to send a group to observe patients, treatment methods and the environment in the city
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 08, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday issued a level one “watch” health notice for travel
Epidemic Intelligence Center Director Liu Ting-ping yesterday gives an update at a news conference in Taipei on the outbreak of a respiratory disease in China’s Wuhan.
Photo: Lin Hui-chin, Taipei Times
People planning to travel to Wuhan and its surrounding areas should take precautions, including avoiding direct exposure to livestock, raw meat markets and infected patients, the agency said, adding that they should also frequently wash their hands with soap, cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing and wear a surgical mask when entering crowded areas.
As of yesterday, 59 people in Wuhan were confirmed to have contracted the unidentified viral pneumonia, which was first reported on Tuesday last week, with the cases mainly linked to a local market where seafood, live animals and raw meat are sold.
As the Lunar New Year is approaching and many Taiwanese in China are expected to return to Taiwan for the holiday, the Executive Yuan has asked the agency to increase preventive measures and send an investigative group to China, CDC Director-General Chou Jih-haw (周志浩) said on Monday evening. [FULL STORY]