Taiwan announced eight new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, and two more deaths. That brings the total to 306 cases and 5 deaths.
Of the eight new cases, seven are imported, while one is a domestic infection. The domestic case is a boy under ten years old. He is related to, and lives with, someone who has been diagnosed with the disease.
The imported cases include three women and five men between the ages of 20 and 70. They arrived in Taiwan between March 2 and 22, and began exhibiting symptoms between March 6-26. They had traveled to the UK, the US, the Philippines and Egypt. Five of the cases are related to a cluster infection on a Nile River cruise.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) says that of Taiwan’s 306 cases, 261 were infected abroad while 45 caught the virus in Taiwan. So far, five people have died of COVID-19 and 39 have recovered. The remaining patients are receiving treatment in hospital isolation wards.