The Central Outbreak Command Center (CCCB) reported five instances imported from COVID-19 from India, Indonesia and the Philippines, bringing the total number of instances displayed in the country to 563.
The assistant director general of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊 祥), who is also the ceCC spokesman, said all cases are foreign citizens who came to Taiwan to work.
Case 560 is a man in his thirties from India, who tested negative on October 12 and 14, before coming to Taiwan with a colleague the next day, Chuang said, adding that they still had no symptoms and were questioned by his company for testing. COVID-19 on Saturday.
The result of the man’s check was positive yesterday, while his colleague scored negative, but was put in house isolation, Chuang said.
Case 561 is an Indonesian woman in her 30s who arrived in Taiwan on October 18 without symptoms, however, she took the test on Saturday after turning 40 and her result tested positive yesterday, she said.
Case 562 is an Indonesian woman in her 30s who arrived in Taiwan on October 10, Chuang said, adding that she had no symptoms and had tested negative on October 23, just before she finished her quarantine.
While the woman was monitoring her fitness in the hiring agency’s bedroom, her employer asked her to take the test on Friday and the result was positive yesterday, she said.
Two other people who remained in the same bedroom that she placed in isolation at her home, she added.
Case 563 is an Indonesian in his twenties, who arrived in Taiwan with case No. 558 and some other employee on October 14, Chuang said, adding that the guy tested negative after his quarantine, he and the other employee were coughing and had a sore. throat on Friday, so they were hospitalized for additional testing.
The man’s check turned out positive yesterday, while the other came back negative again, and his hiring agent also scored negative, he said.
Case 564 is a 20-year-old Filipino who arrived in Taiwan on October 19 and tested negative within 3 days of her arrival, Chuang said, adding that she had no symptoms, the control she took on Sunday proved positive yesterday.
Yesterday, case 530, which was a mismatch, there were 563 cases shown of COVID-19 in Taiwan, he said.
There were seven deaths, while another 519 people were freed from solitary confinement and 37 remain remote in the hospital, he added.
When asked if the quarantine policy for migrant personnel could be changed, Chuang said that the existing policy is for all Travellers in the Philippines to be quarantined in centralized quarantine services and tested at the end of their quarantine.
All migrant social assistance personnel in any country must also be quarantined in centralized quarantine facilities, he added.
Approximately 80% of Indonesian migrant staff who arrived in Taiwan in the past two months were social staff, however, as the COVID-19 scenario worsens in Indonesia, the CCCB plans for all staff in the country to be quarantined in centralized services and tested after quarantine, he said.
The CCCB plans to publish an autumn-winter prevention programme opposed to COVID-19 in the middle of this month, the main points of which would basically be based on the detection of transmission infections, Chuang said.