‘SPORADIC CASE’: The two new cases are family members of a taxi driver who died on Saturday after testing positive for COVID-19 infection
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 18, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has reported two more confirmed cases of COVID-
People wearing masks cross a street in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Ritchie B. Tongo/EPA-EFE
The two new cases are family members who lived with the 19th confirmed patient, who became the first in the nation to die from the infection on Saturday, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news conference last night.
The center on Sunday night said the 19th confirmed patient did not travel abroad and had not been exposed to infected cases, but added that the risk of “community spread” was low.
The 19th case was a 61-year-old man in central Taiwan, who was hospitalized on Feb. 3 for suspected serious flu complications with pneumonia. He died on Saturday, shortly after he tested positive for COVID-19. [FULL STORY]
