Focus Taiwan
Date: 01/22/2020
By: Justine Su, Chen Chun-hua and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Jan. 22 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) called on China Wednesday to inform Taiwan about the spread of a deadly new coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan and said the World Health Organization (WHO) should not exclude Taiwan from the global efforts to contain the virus.

Tsai made the call at a news conference after Taiwan on Tuesday reported its first imported case of the new SARS-like coronavirus, dubbed the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which broke out in the eastern China city of Wuhan last year.

The Taiwanese patient is a 55-year-old businesswoman, who lives in Wuhan and returned to Taiwan on Monday with a fever, sore throat and other symptoms of the infectious disease.

Since Taiwan on Jan. 15 began mandatory screenings at airports of arrivals from high-risk areas of China, 26 people have been tested for the 2019-nCoV and there has been one confirmed case, Tsai said.    [FULL  STORY]