EXPANDING CLUSTER: The latest patient had visited a relative in a ward where the 34th case had been hospitalized, making her the seventh in that cluster
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 04, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced the nation’s 42nd
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, left, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), accompanied by CECC advisory specialist panel convener Chang Shan-chwen, confirms Taiwan’s 42nd case of COVID-19 at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
The new case is associated with the nation’s 34th case — a woman in her 50s who was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus after being hospitalized for about two weeks — as they had both been in the same hospital ward, but not the same room, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
The 42nd case is a relative of a patient in another room who had not recently traveled overseas, he said, adding that she sought treatment at a clinic for coughing and full-body fatigue on Feb. 23.
After an extended contact investigation for the 34th case, which included people who were in the same hospital ward when she was hospitalized, the 42nd case was reported as a suspected infection and tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, he said. [FULL STORY]
