FATHER AND SON: The CECC suspects a younger brother, who had a meal with some friends back from China late last month, might be the source of the latest infections
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 24, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The nation’s 27th and 28th confirmed cases of COVID-19 were announced by the Central
From left, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, Hospital and Social Welfare Organizations Administration Commission Director Wang Pi-Sheng and National Taiwan University Hospital deputy superintendent Chang Shan-chwen present a news conference at the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
The 27th case is a man in his 80s who has chronic hypertension and diabetes and is on dialysis, but has not been abroad recently, while the 28th case is his son, who is in his 50s and lives with his father, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) said.
The older man began suffering coughs and a runny nose on Feb. 6 and was hospitalized for pneumonia in a single-room ward after he developed a fever on Feb. 9, Chuang said.
He was transferred to an intensive care unit on Sunday last week and moved to a negative pressure isolation ward on Thursday for suspected tuberculosis, he said. [FULL STORY]