Taipei, May 14 (CNA) Over 120 residents and staffers at a senior care home in Taipei have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with three of them having died from the disease, the city's Department of Social Welfare said Saturday.
Three residents of a care home for the elderly in Taipei have died of COVID-19 amid an outbreak that has infected 126 people at the care center, the Taipei Department of Social Welfare said yesterday.
The virus has infected 49 employees and 77 residents, including the three deceased, at Haoran Senior Citizens’ Home in Beitou District (北投), the department said.
Seven residents have been hospitalized, while 67 remain at Haoran and are being closely monitored virtually by doctors at Taipei City Hospital’s Yangming Branch, it added.
Tung Fu-chuang (童富泉), who heads the care home, told the Central News Agency that the initial
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Taipei hospital suspends most ER services as 8 staffers contract COVID
06/09/2021 07:27 PM
Taipei City Hospital s Yangming Branch. CNA photo June 9, 2021
Taipei, June 9 (CNA) Taipei City Hospital s Yangming Branch has temporarily stopped almost all emergency room (ER) services, as eight of its employees have tested positive for COVID-19, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Wednesday.
The cluster infection likely began on June 2 when doctors and nurses in the hospital s emergency room were attending to a COVID-19 patient, who was vomiting, CECC official Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞) said at a press briefing.
The ER staff was later tested for COVID-19, and eight of them were found Tuesday to be infected, Lo said.
REAL-TIME SYSTEM: The number of backlogged cases has been falling over the past few days and should be cleared this week, the Minister of Health and Welfare saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter