Taiwan has confirmed another case of COVID-19 on Wednesday bringing the number of confirmed cases to 23 since the outbreak began.
Health Minister Chen Shih-chung, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said on Wednesday in a report by Focus Taiwan, the Central News Agency’s English News, that the latest case is a 60-year-old younger sister of the 61-year-old limousine service driver who became the first person to die of the infection.
Chen said it is suspected that the latest patient was infected with the virus during a family gathering where the driver also attended last January 27. There were 12 people who reportedly attended it.
She is the fourth member of the family who contracted the virus. The three others were the driver’s younger brother, mother, and his niece’s husband.
It was still unclear to health authorities how the deceased driver contracted the virus since he has not traveled to China. But they suspect that his work may have exposed him to it.
As of Wednesday, there are now a total of 217 people who were tested since they were those identified to have close contact with the deceased.
Among them, four have been confirmed with the disease, 189 have been cleared and there are still 24 pending test results.
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