Taipei Times
Date: Feb 29, 2020
By: Staff writer, with CNA
The Kaohsiung Department of Health has tracked down nearly 100 people who have had contact
Kaohsiung Department of Health specialist Pan Chao-ying points to the timeline of a migrant worker from Indonesia, who traveled to Taipei and stayed with the nation’s 32nd confirmed COVID-19 case from Feb. 16 to Feb. 18, at a news conference in Kaohsiung yesterday.
Photo: Huang Hsu-lei, Taipei Times
The friend — an Indonesian caregiver — was on Sunday confirmed as the nation’s 32nd COVID-19 patient, and the search began after a check of the people she came in contact with included the Indonesian factory worker, a Gangshan District (岡山) resident who also fell ill.
The investigation found that the factory worker visited a local clinic on Saturday last week because of a sore throat, after which she went to a hot pot restaurant with three friends.
She was taken to a hospital and quarantined on Sunday, department official Pan Chao-ying (潘炤穎) said yesterday. [FULL STORY]
