By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Taipei City Government yesterday rejected a rumor that Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) has contracted COVID-19. Taipei City Government deputy spokeswoman Huang Ching-yin said that Ko had not been feeling well for two days, but he had not contracted COVID-19 and was not hospitalized. Ko said that his detractors and Chinese trolls had posted misleading remarks and spread a rumor that he had COVID-19. In other news, the city government said that a man who died on a street in Taipei on Sunday had not been quarantined. If a forensic pathologist suggests that the body be tested for COVID-19, specimens would be sent to the Central Epidemic Command Center, Chuang said.

Source: Taipei Times March 02, 2020 15:56 UTC