TAKE PRECAUTIONS: Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung said it would be unacceptable if local cases occur because people stop protection measures
Taipei Times
Date: May 03, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Tainan mascot Yutoujun, “Mr Fish Head,” right, promotes the city’s disease prevention efforts at a joint event with the Tainan-based Uni-President Lions baseball team to resuscitate the city’s tourism industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic by using local delicacies to attract visitors.
Photo provided by Uni-President Lion
The three cases are a woman in her 60s (case No. 430), a woman in her 30s (case No. 431) and a man in his 40s (case No. 432), said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
Case No. 430 on Feb. 22 traveled solo to Australia and on March 24 continued on to Japan, where she had a recurring fever, coughing and vomiting from April 9, before reporting her symptoms to the airport quarantine center upon arriving in Taiwan on Thursday, he said.
Cases No. 431 and No. 432, a married couple, on Feb. 11 began work in Senegal, experienced virus symptoms including fatigue and coughing on April 26 and 27, and were tested after they still had a cough when returning on Friday, Chen said. [FULL STORY]
