Taiwan reports 24 new imported cases of COVID-19 (update)
ROC Central News Agency
11/30/2020 05:39 PM
Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) Twenty-four new imported cases of COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Taiwan on Monday, with the majority being from Indonesia, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Monday.
Twenty of the new cases were Indonesian migrant workers in their 20s to 40s, 17 of whom are women, the CECC said, indicating that they all arrived in groups between Nov. 20 and Nov. 27.
According to the disease control center, apart from one individual who later developed a sore throat on Nov. 29, the others have so far displayed no COVID-19 symptoms after arriving in the country.
Meanwhile, the four other confirmed cases are Taiwanese nationals who arrived from abroad on Nov. 20, Nov. 22, and Nov. 27, respectively, the CECC said.
One was a female in her 20s who had been studying in the United Kingdom and recently returned home with a runny nose and fever, while another was a man in his 30s who had been in the Philippines prior to his return, it said.
The two other individuals both came from the United States and were men in their 30s and 50s who subsequently developed symptoms during home quarantine in Taiwan.
To date, Taiwan has reported 675 cases of COVID-19, 583 of which have been classified as imported.
Of the total, 565 patients have recovered, seven have died and 103 are in hospital, according to CECC data.
(By Frances Huang and Ko Lin)
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