COVID-19: CECC reports five new virus cases, all importedVACCINE BREAKTHROUGH: One of the cases was a woman who is thought to have contracted the disease in India and recovered, posing little risk to the communityBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported five imported cases of COVID-19, including a case who returned to Taiwan in August, but tested positive on Tuesday. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung in Taipei yesterday reports on emergency overseas travel arrangements for people who have received Taiwan’s Medigen COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: CNAThree of the imported cases are vaccine breakthrough infections, said CDC Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division. One of the breakthrough cases is a Taiwanese woman who returned from India on Aug. 20, but tested positive in a self-paid test on Tuesday, he said. She tested positive for antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein and the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, but tested negative for IgM and IgG, meaning that she was likely to have had a previous infection, he said.

Source: Taipei Times November 17, 2021 22:08 UTC