Taiwan records two new imported COVID-19 cases, no local cases

Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (second right). Photo courtesy of the CECC Taiwan on Sunday confirmed two new imported cases of COVID-19 and reported no locally transmitted cases, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC). Both of the new cases are Philippine nationals in their 20s, a man and a woman, who came to Taiwan for work, said Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, at a press briefing in Taipei. The man came to Taiwan on Jan. 14 and applied to stay at a government facility during quarantine. He took a self-paid COVID-19…