Taiwan CDC website allows searches for locations of confirmed Wuhan virus cases

Query results limited to cities and counties of confirmed indigenous and imported cases

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/24
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In response to the mounting coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Taiwan and people's desire to know where they are, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) is adding the new virus to the country's existing epidemic statistics query system.

The search function is currently only available in Chinese, and the virus appears as the "national severe special infectious pneumonia" (全國嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎) instead of the familiar "Wuhan coronavirus" or the "COVID-19" coined by the World Health Organization.

The query results cover both imported and confirmed indigenous cases of the infection.

According to the results shown on the map, there have been seven confirmed cases of the virus in Taipei City, five in New Taipei City and Changhua County, four in Taichung City, two in Kaohsiung City and Nantou County, and one each in Taoyuan City, Tainan City, and Yilan County, totaling 28 cases nationwide as of Monday (Feb. 24). There is no mention of townships or addresses of confirmed cases on the map.    [FULL  STORY]