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COVID-19: Vice premier in quarantine after gov’t drivers test positive

  • 11 April, 2022
  • Staś Butler
COVID-19: Vice premier in quarantine after gov’t drivers test positive
Shen Jong-chin pictured in April 2020. (Photo: Presidential Office Flickr, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)

Two senior Taiwanese politicians have gone into home quarantine after a number of government drivers tested positive for COVID-19. So far, Vice Premier Shen Jong-chin and Cabinet Deputy Secretary-General Ho Pei-shan have no symptoms and have tested negative on PCR tests.

Shen and Ho went into quarantine after health authorities identified them as contacts of a government driver with COVID-19.

The government says Premier Su Tseng-chang had no contact with the drivers with COVID, but Su opted to take a PCR test anyway and tested negative.

Likewise, Vice President Lai Ching-te has taken a precautionary rapid test and tested negative for the disease.

A government COVID-19 response team is investigating the cluster.

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