New infection in Taoyuan reported
FAMILY MEMBER: The case is the grandmother of a nurse who is part of a cluster of infections at a hospital. She had been isolating since last week
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported a domestic case of COVID-19 linked to a cluster infection at a Taoyuan hospital. The center also published some of the public spaces that three previously confirmed cases in the cluster visited from Tuesday last week to Monday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said the new case No. 870 is a woman in her 60s who is the grandmother of case No. 839, a nurse at the hospital whose infection was confirmed on Tuesday last week.