Taiwan Reports Rare COVID-19 Outbreak

Reuters reported Taiwan would more than double the number of people who have to quarantine at more than 5,000 on January 24, 2021, as the country seeks to contain a rare domestic cluster of COVID-19 cases connected to a local hospital.

The Taoyuan Hospital is located near an international airport, west of Taipei, at the northern end of Taiwan.

Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Shih-chung told local media that they would expand the number of people who have to quarantine at home for 14 days who may have contacted the (15) infected patients from the hospital. These cases include two doctors, four nurses, one migrant caregiver, three family members of two of the nurses, and two hospital patients and their three family members, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center.

Despite this new coronavirus outbreak, Taiwan's 23 million residents have only experienced (7) fatalities related to COVID-19 during the pandemic.