Focus Taiwan
Date: 04/03/2020
By: William Yen

Taipei, April 3 (CNA) Nine new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease were confirmed in Taiwan

on Friday, bringing the total in the country to 348 since the pandemic began late last year, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).

The newly confirmed patients are all Taiwanese nationals, seven of whom had contracted the disease overseas, while two are believed to have been infected locally, said Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who also heads the CECC.

One of the local infections, a woman in her 40s, likely contracted COVID-19 from case No. 336, a Taiwanese woman in her 50s with no recent history of overseas travel, who tested positive the previous day, the CECC said.

In the new case, the patient sought medical attention twice after she developed a fever and began having chills on March 24, but she was not tested for the coronavirus until April 1 on her third visit to the doctor, according to the CECC.    [FULL  STORY]