Taiwan to put 5,000 people into quarantine over hospital COVID-19 cluster

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Taiwan to put 5,000 into quarantine over hospital COVID-19 cluster

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TAIPEI: Taiwan will more than double the number of people who have to quarantine at home to more than 5,000 as it seeks to contain a rare domestic cluster of COVID-19 connected to a hospital, the health minister said on Sunday .

While Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention, with the large majority of its 890 infections imported cases, it has since Jan 12 been dealing with a small number of domestic transmissions at a hospital.

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told reporters that they will expand the number of people who have to quarantine at home for 14 days who may have had contact with the infected patients from the hospital cluster.AdvertisementThe government has been testing all of those who have been in quarantine, and has been announcing new cases amongst them as they are confirmed.

Despite the new infections, Taiwan only has 95 active cases being treated in hospital. The government holds news conferences to announce details of every new infection.

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