Taiwan restricts hospital visits to limit exposure to coronavirus

No more than 2 simultaneous visitors per patient: CECC

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/26
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The number of visitors to hospital patients will be restricted  (CNA photo)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – No more than two people will be allowed to enter hospitals to visit the same patient at the same time in a bid to prevent mass outbreaks of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced Wednesday (Feb. 26).

One of Taiwan’s most recent cases of the virus was an 11-year-old boy who might have been infected by his grandfather, case No.27, during a visit to the hospital. On Wednesday, the CECC announced that a foreign caregiver who worked with the same man at the hospital also tested positive for the virus.    [FULL  STORY]

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