Taiwan has announced a second fatal case of COVID-19. The deceased was a man in his eighties with pre-existing health conditions.
He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in late February. Doctors had put the man on a ventilator and had tried to improve his condition with a drug used to treat AIDS patients.
This second death from COVID-19 came on Friday, as Taiwan recorded 27 new COVID-19 cases. This was the biggest single-day increase in Taiwan’s case load so far.
Three of the new cases have a local origin. In two of these cases, the source of infection remains unclear.
With the addition of the new cases announced Friday, the number of cases Taiwan has recorded since the start of the outbreak now stands at 135.