Female Chinese tourist from Wuhan quarantined for symptoms of China coronavirus

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/01/21
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A female tourist from Wuhan, the origin of a deadly new strain of coronavirus, has been quarantined after she developed potential symptoms of the disease while traveling in eastern Taiwan.

At about 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning (Jan. 21), a Chinese national was admitted to the emergency room of Mennonite Christian Hospital after exhibiting some symptoms of a mysterious new virus named 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), reported UDN.

While taking part in a group tour of Hualien, Taiwan, the woman started coming down with an illness, and although she believed she could treat it herself, the group's leader opted to have her seek medical treatment as a precaution.

Mennonite Christian Hospital said that a 39-year-old woman from Wuhan who was part of a group of 17 Chinese tourists had been admitted to the ER Tuesday morning. After arriving in Taiwan on Jan. 16 and visiting Hualien on Monday (Jan. 20), the woman suddenly developed a fever, and although the fever subsided somewhat after she took some medicine, the tour's leader decided to send her a nearby hospital, reported ETtoday.    [FULL  STORY]