Taiwan to set up Covid-19 testing stations as 286 new local cases reported
- High-risk spots will each have a station where people can get tested as the island battles to get latest outbreak under control
- Total number of domestic infections in the past 10 days stands at 1,577
On Thursday, an additional 286 locally transmitted infections were reported with 87 in Taipei and 157 in New Taipei – the two cities with the largest number of domestic cases – according to Health Minister Chen Shih-chung.
“One new death was reported involving a 70-year-old woman from [Taipei’s] Wanhua district,” Chen said. The woman, who lived alone and had heart and vascular problems, showed Covid-19 symptoms on May 15, but had refused to be hospitalised. “She was found dead on May 17,” Chen said.
Elsewhere on the island, new cases were also reported in some cities and counties in northeastern, northern, central, and southern Taiwan.
The new cases bring the number of locally transmitted infections to 1, 577 for the past 10 days, and to 1,669 since the pandemic began. There were also nine imported cases on Thursday, taking the combined total to 2,825, with 15 deaths.
