The spread of the Epidemic in Taiwan‘s Taoyuan Hospital has seen the number of confirmed medical staff and Family members increase to 15. The most serious is that the latest two are couples who were hospitalized in the “green zone” of the hospital, which was originally deemed safe, and officials have so far been unable to find the source of their infection. The command center held an emergency press conference yesterday evening, announcing the expansion of the firewall to include the 5,000 people who may be infected in the Home quarantine. This is the largest quarantine operation in Taiwan since the beginning of the epidemic, and the island is on edge.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:00 pm press conference, the command center announced that the Taoyuan Hospital infection case increased by 2 confirmed patients, so that the number of confirmed patients increased from 13 to 15. Case 889 is a male hospitalized in his sixties, and Case 890 is his wife. The man was admitted to Taoyuan Hospital from January 8 to 11 due to illness, when the first wave of nosocomial infections had spread and the hospital was divided into red, yellow and green zones and controlled separately. The man lived on the 12th floor of the A area was classified as a safe green area, no need to test. It was 13 days after he was discharged from the hospital that the diagnosis was confirmed yesterday. The command center announced in the afternoon to change the 12th floor A area from green zone to red zone, but four hours later, again held an emergency press conference, announced that because the source of infection can not be found, in order to be prudent, expand the firewall, emergency notification of 5,000 people home quarantine.
Officials announced that from January 6 to January 19, the patients and residents discharged from Taoyuan Hospital, as well as those accompanying the sick and those accompanying the sick, as well as all contacts of the male in Case 889 when he went to the doctor, from six o’clock last night, that is, the same Time the news was announced, are prohibited from going out, and all are included in the home quarantine from now on, until 14 days after discharge. A total of about 5,000 people have been quarantined, breaking the record for the largest number of people quarantined since the outbreak in Taiwan.
The executive president, Su Zhenchang, personally held a meeting yesterday to prevent the epidemic, asking for full support from the relevant ministries, and the relevant units of the Taoyuan city government worked through the night yesterday evening to notify and arrange for the isolation of 5,000 people overnight. And report to President Tsai Ing-wen. Through her Facebook page in the evening, Tsai implored people to check their exposure history and take the initiative to cooperate with the epidemic prevention measures; she said that as long as everyone implements the epidemic prevention cautiously and understands and assists each other, she is confident that Taiwan will be able to survive the challenge of the epidemic again.
Epidemic commander Chen Shih-chung explained the reason why the quarantine operation must be expanded is that the case 889 was confirmed and the person was in the green zone when hospitalized, and the source of infection cannot be found at this time, which means that the warning signs are out and the risk has escalated, and all experts as well as epidemic prevention personnel believe that it is necessary to establish a more complete firewall, and there is no time to wait for the nucleic acid test and serum test reports to come out, and a large-scale home quarantine operation must be conducted before the source of infection is clarified in order to minimize the risk to the community.
Taoyuan city government for public places and places where confirmed patients have been fully disinfected, but the epidemic has seriously impacted the market situation in Taoyuan, Taiwan Railway Bureau Taoyuan station, Jhongli station has 10 million passengers in and out every year, is the second and third largest station after Taipei station, but yesterday was empty, passengers significantly reduced. And Taoyuan is adjacent to New Taipei City and Taipei City, North North Peach is the same circle of Life, many people live in Taoyuan, work in the double North, which also makes the people of Taipei City and New Taipei City nervous, many group activities have called off.
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