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Taiwanese students have their temperature checked when they enter Taipei American School in March. The country has been one of the success stories of the Covid pandemic, without having reported a community case since April.
Taiwan has reported its first community case of Covid-19 since April, a person who had been in contact with an infected pilot from New Zealand.
The New Zealand man, in his 60s, lives in Taiwan and tested positive for coronavirus on December 20 after experiencing symptoms while traveling on a cargo flight to the US.
The new case, a 30-year-old woman, was a friend of his and was confirmed to have caught Covid in Taiwan, the country’s Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Tuesday.
Chen told local media that the New Zealand citizen had not properly reported all his contacts and movements. Health officials were examining 167 people who had had contact with the woman.
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Two people who flew with the pilot also tested positive.
On Tuesday, the New Zealand Ministry of Health said it had not been contacted by Taiwanese authorities about the pilot.
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The Taiwan Center for Disease Control last reported a national case on April 12, when the country had 553 Covid-19 cases and seven deaths.
Taiwan has been singled out as a success story in responding to the pandemic, especially considering its close trade and tourism ties with China, where the virus first appeared late last year.
His success has been attributed in part to acting from the start.
Taiwanese officials were screening passengers on flights from Wuhan, the Chinese city where the pandemic began, as early as Dec. 31 for symptoms of fever and pneumonia, according to researchers writing in JAMA, a medical journal.
