(Fighting new crown pneumonia) 8 new confirmed cases in Taiwan accumulate 5 deaths

China News Service, Taipei, March 30. Taiwan's "Episode Epidemic Command Center" announced on the 30th that Taiwan has added eight new confirmed cases of new pneumonia, including seven imported cases and one local case. A total of 306 people have been diagnosed, and 5 have died.

General Central News Agency and China Broadcasting News reported that the new local case was a 5-year-old boy whose father was an employee of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau stationed at Taoyuan International Airport. Recently, he received a son who returned to Taiwan from a director of the bureau. Infected with new crown pneumonia. The boy who lived together developed fever on the 26th and was diagnosed on the 30th. He has no symptoms. The newly added overseas imported cases have a history of activities in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Philippines, and Egypt, of which 5 were related to the clustering event.

The "Outbreak Epidemic Command Center" pointed out that the boy had already attended kindergarten, and the class he was studying in had to be suspended for 14 days, and 17 people who had contact with him had to be isolated at home for 14 days. In addition, 2 new people died of new coronary pneumonia in Taiwan, and a total of 5 people died.

On the evening of the 29th, 153 stranded Hubei compatriots returned to Taiwan by plane in Shanghai, and the quarantine staff immediately took inspections and sent them to the quarantine station for centralized isolation. The "Outbreak Epidemic Command Center" announced the test results on the 30th. Three of them had to be retaken because of insufficient quality of the specimens, and the remaining 150 were negative.

According to the United Daily News on the 30th, the number of quarantine and home quarantine in Taiwan has exceeded 10,000. Taiwan's "Environmental Protection Agency" reminds that if you violate the rules and go out to dump garbage, you will be fined 100,000 to 1 million yuan. Taiwan dollars. (Finish)