- Taiwan on Tuesday (Jan 12) reported two new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections – the first of such cases since Dec 22 – a doctor in a hospital, who was treating an already infected patient, and a nurse.
- Until last month’s domestic transmission, the island had not reported any local cases since Apr 12, with the vast majority of infections in people coming to Taiwan from overseas.
- Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention methods and widespread mask wearing. It has reported 839 cases, including seven deaths, with 101 in hospital being treated.
- But Taiwan’s government has watched nervously as imported cases rise, albeit at a far lower rate than in many other places, with December’s domestic infection causing particular worry.
- “Of course, we really regret the hospital infection,” Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters. “Our hospital control measures are extremely strict, but inevitably something may have been overlooked.”
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