TRACKING DOWN: Four of the new cases are hospital personnel who had come into contact with a previous case, while the other is a woman who had traveled abroad
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 01, 2020
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Five new COVID-19 cases were confirmed yesterday, including four linked to the 34th case who
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, front row second right, and others yesterday look at a body temperature screening station during a visit to Taipei Veterans General Hospital to learn more about the hospital’s disease prevention measures.
Photo: CNA
Cases 35 through 38 are a janitor and three nurses working at the hospital where the 34th case was hospitalized.
The 34th case is a woman living in northern Taiwan who had not traveled overseas in the 14 days prior to being confirmed as having COVID-19, the center said.
The CECC believes the woman transmitted the virus to the janitor, who was stationed at the emergency room, before spreading it to the three nurses working in the ward where she was later placed, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a news conference in Taipei. [FULL STORY]
