Radio Taiwan Internatiopnal
Date: 20 March, 2020
By: John Van Trieste

Taiwan has announced a second fatal case of COVID-19. The deceased was a man in his eighties with pre-existing health conditions.

He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in late February. Doctors had put the man on a ventilator and had tried to improve his condition with a drug used to treat AIDS patients.

This second death from COVID-19 came on Friday, as Taiwan recorded 27 new COVID-19 cases. This was the biggest single-day increase in Taiwan’s case load so far.    [FULL  STORY]