GOING HOME: A total of 427 people infected with COVID-19 have left isolation, with nine people still hospitalized, as the nation enters its 50th day without a domestic case
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 02, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported one new imported case
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung speaks at the Central Epidemic Command Center’s daily news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), head of the center, said that a woman in her 50s, who had visited the US on a business trip in March, returned to Taiwan on Sunday with the disease.
Her symptoms of a fever, runny nose and coughing began on May 18, and on May 21 she lost her sense of smell, he said.
She reported her condition to the airport quarantine officers upon arrival, he said, adding that she was tested for COVID-19 at the airport and has entered a quarantine center.
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