Taiwanese health officials announced 16 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday. The newest cases bring the total number Taiwan has reported since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak up to 169.
Only three of the new cases are cases of local transmission. Health officials have compiled a list of people that at least one of these new patients has been in recent contact with. Almost all of the people on this list have already been tested, and none have had a positive result so far.
The remaining13 cases are imported, brought in by people with a history of recent travel to the US, Egypt, Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Denmark, New Zealand, and the Philippines.