MEDICAL ALERT: A Taiwanese woman working in Wuhan who arrived on Monday tested positive for the coronavirus, the CDC said, urging people to take precautions
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 22, 2020
By: Staff writer, with CNA
Taiwan yesterday reported its first confirmed case of a new type of coronavirus — a 55-year-old
Epidemic Intelligence Center Director Liu Ting-ping gives an update on the 2019 novel coronavirus at a news conference at the Centers for Disease Control in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Lin Hui-chin, Taipei Times
The woman, who works in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered, reported to quarantine officials at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport that she had a fever, the epidemic response command center said.
The center was established on Monday to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
The woman was immediately placed in quarantine and later tested positive for the pneumonia-like virus, dubbed the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the center said. [FULL STORY]
