Only exceptions are patients in critical or deteriorating condition: CECC

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/04/02
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Visits patients, including relatives, being treated in hospitals will soon be banned with few exceptions in order to prevent cluster outbreaks of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Thursday (April 2).

Several hospitals and clinics have already tightened their regulations to avoid unnecessary contact between medical personnel and patients, as well as outside visitors. Only when the coronavirus pandemic has been brought under control will visits to relatives be allowed again, CECC chief and Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Thursday.    [FULL  STORY]