China News Service, March 2. According to reports from Taiwan ’s “Central News Agency” and “Lianhe Daily”, Taiwan ’s “Outbreak Command Center” announced today that Taiwan has added one confirmed case of new crown pneumonia and is the 34th patient ’s daughter in her 20s. (Case 41), there is no recent history of tourism, except for his own allergies, without any discomfort, and 289 contacts will be followed closely.
This new case had been to the ward to accompany the 34th patient and assist in the washing several times from February 15th to 26th. On February 28th, the health unit arranged for the contact person to be examined and hospitalized for isolation. One was negative, but the second was negative. Positive, confirmed today.
According to reports, Case 34 was a 60-year-old woman who was admitted to the emergency department on February 14 due to metabolic problems such as hypoglycemia, and contacted a cleaning staff member that day. The woman became ill 7 days after being hospitalized. The 3 nursing staff who took care of her and the cleaning staff also developed symptoms and confirmed the diagnosis.
The onset of the cleaning staff and one of the paramedics occurred earlier than the woman in her sixties. Whoever transmitted the nosocomial infection to whom? The command center is investigating. The command center announced today that the woman's daughter has been diagnosed. Since then, the total number of confirmed patients has reached six.
The "command center" stated that the group had completed the cleaning and disinfection of the hospital emergency room and the hospital ward before the diagnosis of Case 34 from February 28 to March 1, and the environmental test results were negative after re-testing. For this group, a total of 289 contacts have been mastered, and 231 people have been tested. Of these, 5 were confirmed, 197 were negative, and the rest of the tests will be closely tracked.