Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says it has no plans to issue a travel alert for visitors to South Korea. The announcement came Monday after three suspected cases of MERS were reported there Sunday.
MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, which claimed 36 deaths in South Korea since its outbreak in mid-May.
CDC Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang said on Monday that the three new cases are not indigenous to South Korea as the three were returning from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
“If the three cases are confirmed ones, [we must] watch whether the virus will spread furthe," said Chuang. "Also, even if they are tested positive for MERS, we will not necessarily issue an alert as the three were returning from the Middle East.”
The three suspected of contracting MERS are now being quarantined and 66 people who had had close contact with them have also been kept under observation.
The CDC lifted travel advisories on South Korea last Wednesday, a day after Seoul declared an end to the outbreak.