While Taiwan has reported just 1,291 cases, mostly imported from abroad, out of a population of some 24 million, a recent small rise in domestic infections has spooked residents and the stock market.
Chen called on people who think they may have had contact with infected patients to go to rapid testing stations the government is setting up around Wanhua.Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said that bars, nightclubs, saunas and karaoke halls would close from Saturday. The cluster of infections has been linked by DNA sequencing to an earlier outbreak at an airport hotel and pilots at Taiwan's largest carrier, China Airlines Ltd.
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