Taiwan reported 15 new local cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
Most of the local cases are connected to a cluster at a workplace in Kaohsiung. Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai says authorities uncovered the cluster when a female employee tested positive on Wednesday. Authorities later tested her colleagues. Ten of them tested positive, along with two of their family members.
The other two people confirmed to have caught COVID in Taiwan are part of a cluster that spread during a wedding in Chiayi.
Taiwan also recorded 124 imported cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. That’s the highest number since the pandemic began. Eighty-eight of them tested positive on arrival in Taiwan, while the remaining 36 tested positive in quarantine. They include travelers from Indonesia, South Korea, and Hong Kong, among others. Health authorities are still verifying the travel history of 33 travelers.
There were no deaths reported.