‘VERY WILLING’: Health authorities voiced their hope in a WHO conference call that Taiwan could participate in more WHO events and share its experiences with other nations

Taipei Times
Date:  Apr 17, 2020
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter

The Central Epidemic Command Center yesterday reported no new cases of COVID-19 — the second time this week — and confirmed that Taiwanese and WHO experts had exchanged information about the pandemic via telephone a day earlier.

The center last reported zero new cases on Tuesday — the first time since March 9 that no new cases had been reported.

As of the center’s daily news briefing in Taipei yesterday, 155 confirmed patients had been released from isolation, up from 137 on Wednesday, the center said.

That was out of a total of 395 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Taiwan — 340 imported and 55 domestic — out of which six have died, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.    [FULL  STORY]