Taiwan could see 7,000 Wuhan coronavirus infections says public health expert

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/17
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan could ultimately see 7,000 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a public health expert who spoke at a press conference on Monday (Feb. 17).

Chen Hsiu-hsi (陳秀熙), vice dean of National Taiwan University’s Department of Public Health on Monday said that before Wuhan was locked down, approximately 7,500 Chinese from the infested city visited Taiwan, reported Rti. Of that number, Chen estimates that 505 could have already been infected with the disease.

Chen said that before Wuhan was sealed off, more than 5 million people left the city for the Lunar New Year holiday. Of those people pouring out of the city at the time, 7,515 visited Taiwan, 505 of whom could have been carrying COVID-19.

He said that of those 505, 111 were not tested because at the time people who did not have a fever were not tested for the illness. Chen said that in the three weeks since Wuhan has been locked down, those who potentially were infected in Taiwan have mainly been placed in quarantine.
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