Radio Taiwan International
Date: 22 January, 2020
By: John Van Trieste

The health ministry says that Taiwan’s hospitals are prepared to handle the possible spread of a new coronavirus that has arrived from China.

The virus, officially named 2019-nCoV, is responsible for an outbreak of pneumonia centered on the Chinese city of Wuhan. The virus has since spread through China and beyond. Over 400 cases have been confirmed and at least nine have died.

Taiwan reported its first confirmed case of the virus late on Tuesday. The previous day, a Taiwanese woman who lives in Wuhan told quarantine officials at Taoyuan International Airport that she had been suffering from pneumonia symptoms.    [FULL  STORY]