Taiwan To Put 5,000 Into Quarantine Over Hospital COVID-19 Cluster


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TAIPEI: Taiwan will more than double the number of people who have to quarantine at home to more than 5,000 as it seeks to contain a rare domestic cluster of COVID-19 connected to a hospital, the health minister said on Sunday. While Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention, with the large majority of its 890 infections imported cases, it has since Jan. 12 been dealing with a small number of domestic transmissions at a hospital. While the 15 people infected so far at the hospital in the northern city of Taoyuan is...