Vietnam reports case of COVID-19 from Taiwan
ROC Central News Agency
02/14/2021 04:35 PM
Hanoi and Taipei, Feb. 14 (CNA) Vietnam has reported a COVID-19 case that involved a recent arrival from Taiwan, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Sunday.
Vietnamese media reported four imported COVID-19 cases late Saturday, one of which involved a Taiwanese national who arrived in the Southeast Asian country in late January.
Chen, who also heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said at a press conference in Taipei that the CECC wanted to find out more about the case and felt more concrete information would be available in the next two days.
The case, according to Vietnamese reports, involved a 39-year old Taiwanese woman who arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on China Airlines flight CI783 on Jan. 28.
She was subsequently confirmed as having COVID-19 after taking a coronavirus test on Feb. 11, reports said.
Chen said there were three possible reasons for the positive test, two having to do with problems in Vietnam.
The result may have been a "false positive," or the woman could have been infected during a round of group testing for COVID-19 before going into quarantine upon arrival, something Chen said has happened in Vietnam previously.
The other possibility is that the woman was in fact infected in Taiwan, said Chen, who noted that an investigation had begun to determine if that was the case.
As for Taiwan, it reported its second consecutive day without any COVID-19 cases on Sunday.
(By Shine Chen, Yu Hsiao-han and Ko Lin)
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