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Written by: Yang Tengkai
2020-01-28 15:15
Last updated: 2020-01-28 15:16The Taiwan Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center said today (28th) that Taiwan has newly confirmed 2 cases of severe special infectious pneumonia abroad (Wuhan pneumonia), and a total of 7 cases have been confirmed in Taiwan. The two new cases this time were all land-based 70-year-old women living in Wuhan. They went to the hospital for a fever during their visit to Taiwan and were diagnosed with tests.
In addition, the Taiwan Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center also announced that it would upgrade the tourism epidemic level recommendations for mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) from the second-level warning to the third-level warning, asking the public to avoid all unnecessary travel.
Taiwan announced on January 28 that there were two new confirmed cases of Wuhan pneumonia, two of whom were from Luke from Wuhan, who had fever during their travel to Taiwan for medical treatment. The picture shows people in Taiwan who wear masks to prevent epidemics when they return home during the Spring Festival. (Central News Agency)
According to the information held by the Taiwan Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center, two new confirmed cases of Luke arrived in Taiwan on January 22 as a freelance traveller, and they developed fever on January 25. The hospital immediately notified A negative pressure isolation ward was admitted and diagnosed on January 28 after the examination. The Taiwan Central Epidemic Epidemic Command Center stated that the two cases are currently in stable condition, and hospitals and local health units have followed the relevant disposal procedures to carry out epidemic investigations and contact tracing.
Taiwan added 130 new cases on January 27. A total of 530 cases have been notified, including 7 confirmed diagnoses, 269 excluded, and the rest of the isolation tests (98 negative initial tests, the rest to be tested). The 7 confirmed cases were stable and continued to be hospitalized and quarantined. Except for the 6th and 7th confirmed case contacts to be tracked, the remaining 5 confirmed case contacts totaled 470, of which 16 were symptomatic and reported (10 out of 2) Negative tests have been excluded, and 6 people are in the test).
According to the Taiwan Central Epidemic Outbreak Command Center, given that only 31 autonomous regions in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions) have no confirmed or suspected cases in Tibet, the number of cases continues to increase in all provinces in mainland China. The WHO (World Health Organization) has stated that the virus is capable of transmitting humans and that the risk of infection is increasing. The command center expanded the scope of the third level warning for tourism outbreak recommendations to mainland China (excluding Hong Kong and Macao) on January 28, calling on the public Avoid all unnecessary travel to the local area.
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