Taiwan has confirmed eight new cases of COVID-19. This brings Taiwan’s total number of confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak up to108.
Six out of the eight new cases are Taiwanese citizens who recently returned from travel or study abroad. Between them, they had recently traveled to Egypt, the United States, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, and Spain.
A seventh case is a French man in his 50’s who came to visit his family in Taiwan. He began to show symptoms of COVID-19 on Monday and was admitted to a hospital soon after.
The final case is a classmate of a high school student who was diagnosed with COVID-19 a few days ago. The government has ordered a weeklong suspension of classes at the school where these two cases were reported. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung also says that medical workers will conduct extensive spot checks on students from the school to reduce the disease’s chances of spreading.