Among the eight new local cases, seven were in New Taipei City, including five people linked to the preschool cluster, and one in Taipei, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center. A cleaner sanitizes a playground at the affiliated kindergarten of an elementary school in Taipei yesterday, after a cluster of COVID-19 cases were linked to a kindergarten in New Taipei City. Photo: CNAThe cluster has since expanded to 15 people, with nine cases — eight students and a parent — reported on Monday, and five more cases — a student, three parents and a one-year-old sibling of a student — reported yesterday, Chen said. The CECC also reported four imported COVID-19 cases: two Taiwanese, one Japanese and one Malaysian. The 12 new cases brought the total number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan to 16,047, of which 14,386 were domestic infections reported since May 15, when the country first recorded more than 100 cases in a single day.

Source: Taipei Times September 07, 2021 15:56 UTC