Virus Outbreak: CECC reports new imported COVID-19 caseNEW TESTING FACILITIES: Taoyuan International Airport Corp has constructed two new COVID-19 sample-collection houses outside Taiwan Taoyuan International AirportBy Sherry Hsiao and Shelley Shan / Staff reportersThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported one new imported case of COVID-19, a Taiwanese woman in her 30s who traveled to the Philippines in late January for work. A medical worker in a converted shipping container at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport collects a specimen from a passenger returning from a COVID-19-infected area yesterday. A person in protective clothing waits yesterday outside a newly converted shipping container at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport for inspecting arrivals from COVID-19-infected areas. As of yesterday, Taiwan has recorded 452 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 361 imported cases, 55 local infections and 36 cases from the navy’s “Friendship Flotilla,” as well as seven deaths, CECC data showed. Meanwhile, Taoyuan International Airport Corp yesterday began using new facilities to collect specimens to test for COVID-19 at the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

Source: Taipei Times July 16, 2020 15:56 UTC