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An outbreak of Wuhan pneumonia occurred at the Taoyuan (Butao) Hospital of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The epidemic spread to the community. Yesterday (1/19) another 4 local cases were added. Butao launched an emptying plan. Yesterday and today 220 hospitalized patients were transferred. 353 employees went to the centralized quarantine station or returned to the hospital to be quarantined for 14 days. Chen Shizhong, commander of the Epidemic Central Command Center, held a press conference at 2:00 p.m. (1/20) to explain the epidemic situation and prevention measures. “Apple News” will be broadcast live for readers. Today, Taiwan has 2 new cases, 1 overseas immigration and 1 local case. The local case is that of the grandmother in Case 839 (the first case of an infected doctor living with the girlfriend of a nurse).
The media asked today if this epidemic is the biggest challenge.Chen Shizhong said that this time the scope of doing the greatest, if it is the greatest challenge, this case was not the greatest at first, but it has been the greatest challenge now.Is the biggest challenge facing confirmed cases or prevention and treatment and manpower? Chen Shizhong pointed out that they are all challenges. The last hospital infection did not involve the doctor. This time, the nurses did a relatively fixed part of the division and diversion. Physicians were relatively supportive and had more consultations, so the reach was relatively large and thus the entire emptying plan was expanded. The definition of close contacts has also been expanded for as many staff as possible. If they are in contact, they will be quarantined. There are also many people infected and quarantined. The emptying plan is relatively large and will be ready.
♦ One more local case is now the grandmother of the girlfriend and nurse of the first infected doctor
The Epidemic Central Command Center announced today (20) a new confirmed case of COVID-19 in China (Case 870), which is a grandmother in her 60s with a Ct value of 19. Case 870 was negative when collected for the first time and was included as an object of home quarantine on January 11 and there were no other contacts. The community contacts in Case 870 were the same as those in Case 839, and were not in contact after the home quarantine began on 11/1, so the list will not be repeated.
The command center stated that case 870 had coexisted with case 839. On January 11, he was listed as the contact person for case 839 and was later placed in home isolation. The test result on January 12 was negative; the case developed a fever on January 18, and the health department made arrangements to see a doctor and performed another examination, and the diagnosis was confirmed today. Since the case was isolated at home 2 days before the onset of the illness and before hospitalization and isolation, and did not come into contact with other people, no contact was recorded.
This afternoon it became known that an employee of an accounting firm located in the Taipei 101 building was a relative who did not live with Case 864, but had a brief contact. This employee has been registered and inspected. I walked into the office in Building 101 in the morning of the same day and contacted 10 employees during the period. The company has asked employees to return home for independent health management. The floor where the employee was located was disinfected that day, and the entire office was also subjected to large-scale layer disinfection from 19 to 21. The Taipei 101 building said this afternoon that it “will not be closed” and will continue to carry out comprehensive operations epidemic prevention with the highest standards. Command center spokesman Zhuang Renxiang said that, at present, we understand that this employee was in contact with Case 864 on January 16 and January 17, and is a confirmed contact. Don’t be too scared.
♦ Today, one more case was imported from abroad to Spain, the visitor returned to China more than a year ago and was diagnosed with the disease.
Today, Taiwan also added a new foreign immigration case (case 871), involving a woman in her 20s. He went to Spain to visit his friends in December (2019). He returned to Taiwan on January 8 (2021) and made a flight. Negative test report within the first 3 days, home quarantine in residence after entry. The case developed a cough, sore throat and abnormal odor on January 17. The health unit ordered the hospital to examine him on January 18. The diagnosis was confirmed today. A total of 2 contacts of the case have been listed, and they are relatives who live in the same home, because they did not have the proper protection when delivering meals, they were classified as objects of home isolation.
The command center stated that local Singapore cases have increased slightly recently and sporadic cases have been continuously detected in the community, including workplaces / family groups with unknown sources of infection, so the country will adjust from one country from low risk to a medium-low risk country with immediate effect; The most recent list of infection risk levels is as follows:
Low risk countries / regions: New Zealand, Macao, Palau, Fiji, Brunei, Laos, Nauru, East Timor, Mauritius, Vietnam, Marshall Islands, Cambodia.
Low and medium risk countries / regions: Australia, Singapore.
Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie went to Palau a few days ago, is the minister considering opening the diplomatic bubble with Palau? Chen Shizhong said that Palau’s diplomatic bubble will be discussed at a meeting when the Foreign Ministry returns. The situation in Palau is different from that of the United States. It is zero confirmed. Basically, after the discussion at the expert meeting, everyone hopes to move in that direction.
In the case of the contract for 5 million doses of vaccines, Chen Shizhong said that it is unknown whether the relevant brands are due to problems in the production schedule, which caused some delays in negotiations, and it will take a few more weeks. In the COVAX section, the command center once said that the label’s decision date is January 22. It has been decided? Chen said we will talk about it after signing the contract. Regarding the progress of domestic vaccine research and development, Chen Shizhong said that the second phase of the high-end vaccine clinical trial has passed the conditions, and another company, Uniasia, may also be approved by the end of January. Currently, the two are fairly fluid and have high expectations for domestic vaccines.
The command center stated that there were 1 recently confirmed local and 1 foreign immigration case (cases 870 to 871) in China at present. So far, there have been a total of 139,990 notifications related to novel coronavirus pneumonia (including 137,156 excluded cases), of which 870 cases Confirmed cases were 765 immigration abroad, 66 local cases, 36 from the Dunmu fleet, 2 aircraft infections and 1 unknown; the other case (case 530) was removed as empty. Of the confirmed cases, 7 died, 769 were released from isolation, and 94 were hospitalized in isolation.
(Huang Zhongqiu, Lin Fangru, Xu Zhijia / Taipei Report)
