Hundreds more hospital workers to be given testsBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center yesterday said it would test up to 400 more employees at the hospital where the nation’s two latest domestic cases of COVID-19 worked, although the center did not expect the results to reveal new cases. 838, a physician in his 30s who works at a hospital in northern Taiwan, and case No. 839, a nurse at the same hospital who is also the physician’s girlfriend — were confirmed by the CECC on Tuesday. Fifty-four contacts of the pair outside the context of the hospital were tested for COVID-19 and had returned negative results, he said. The 300 to 400 additional tests — all medical or administrative personnel — would be performed today and tomorrow, Chen said.

Source: Taipei Times January 14, 2021 15:56 UTC