Taiwan on Friday reported five new COVID-19 cases, all contracted overseas, and no deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The five imported cases included a Taiwanese man in his 50s returning from Malaysia, a teenage Thai girl traveling from her country and a Chinese national in his 20s visiting from Russia, the CECC said in a statement.
The Taiwanese man tested positive upon arrival at the airport on Oct. 27, while the Thai teenager and the Chinese man, who arrived on Oct. 27 and Oct. 15, respectively, had a positive test before completing their mandatory 14-day quarantine, the CECC said.
The other two cases involved Philippine men — one in his 30s and the other in his 40s — who had been working on a fishing boat since Aug. 16 after traveling to Taiwan on Aug. 2 and being quarantined before going to work.
They took a COVID-19 test for their job on Oct. 27, and the results came back positive, according to the CECC.
To date, Taiwan has confirmed a total of 16,399 COVID-19 cases, of which 14,425 are domestic infections reported since May 15, when the country first recorded more than 100 cases in a single day, CECC data showed.
With Friday’s new cases, Taiwan reported eight locally acquired cases and 168 imported cases in October.
Since Aug. 15, however, the daily number of domestic cases has fallen to mostly single digits, totaling 122, while the country’s total number of imported cases has risen by 456 during the same period to 1,756, according to CECC data.
With no new deaths reported Friday, the number of confirmed COVID-19 fatalities in the country remained at 847, with all but 12 recorded since May 15, CECC data showed.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel