Taiwan has confirmed 16 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases recorded in Taiwan so far up to 283.
The government's Central Epidemic Command Center said Saturday that 14 of these cases are imported, brought in by people with a recent history of travel to the US, Canada, the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Australia, and the Philippines.
The remaining two new cases are of domestic origin. The patient in one of these cases works at the Tourist Service Center at Taoyuan International Airport and was likely infected while on the job.
Health authorities are more concerned about the second of these patients, a man in his 50s who developed symptoms a month ago. That's because it remains unclear how he could have been infected.