COVID-19: President Tsai Ing-wen tests negative for COVID-19
Staff writer, with CNA
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took a COVID-19 test, which came back negative, after a volunteer caring for her dogs tested positive for the disease, Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang (張惇涵) said on Thursday.
Tsai took a polymerase chain reaction test shortly after the Presidential Office on Wednesday was alerted that the volunteer had tested positive, Chang said.
The volunteer, who lives in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和), last visited Tsai’s official residence on Tuesday last week from 9am to 5:40pm, during which the volunteer did not have contact with the president, Chang said.