Far Eastern Memorial Hospital Confirms Another Case 亞東再增1確診 確診母子隔壁房陪病者

Another person was diagnosed with COVID-19 at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital. She had stayed in the room next to another two confirmed cases reported the other day so they are considered to belong to the same transmission chain.  Additionally, the real estate agent cluster case in Taipei City also expanded with a new confirmed infection of a kindergarten teacher in Songshan District.

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in New Taipei City's Banqiao District has been screening patients and accompanying family members who are in the hospital for more than seven days. After a female patient and her accompanying son were diagnosed with COVID-19 on the 26th, a woman in her 20s who had stayed next to their room also tested positive with a Ct value of 20.4, despite a first negative test.

Hou Yu-ih, Mayor, New Taipei City: “Cases coming back from negative to positive cases are actually not contagious in themselves. More importantly, Far Eastern Hospital has been very aggressive in dealing with the matter by doing three consecutive comprehensive inspections. Nearly 15,000 people are negative. So the hospital is actually already all-in on fighting this cluster.”

Far Eastern Hospital judged these infections to be the same transmission chain according to the spatial sequence. It immediately initiated contact tracing and took isolation control measures to contain the virus. Meanwhile, the infection cluster of the Taipei City real estate broker has expanded. The broker's friend dined at a noodle shop, which infected a kindergarten teacher in Songshan District. A total of 147 people in the kindergarten and a cram school where the teacher also taught, are now being quarantined at home. Five people, including students and staff, from three different schools, were diagnosed with the virus on the evening of the 27th. The city government dispatched screening vehicles to the schools on the afternoon of the 28th.

Chen Chih-han, Spokesperson, Taipei City Government: “Taipei City Government attaches great importance to each confirmed case. So we will actively expand contact tracing and quarantine. We hope that everyone that has been quarantined can cooperate as much as possible. We want to break the infection chain in the shortest span of time.”

Should the restaurant policy be adjusted as the epidemic heats up? Taipei expects to raise its epidemic prevention alert to level 2.5 during the Lunar New Year Festival. Relevant regulations for level 2.5 are still under discussion. The other five special municipalities are not following Taipei's lead for the time being. Kaohsiung and Taoyuan, where the epidemic situation is relatively more serious, also introduced stricter requirements than central government guidelines. 

 

板橋亞東醫院之前普篩住院超過七日的患者和陪病者，一位女病患和陪病的兒子都確診，27日再度篩檢時，一名陪病者PCR陰轉陽，是一位20多歲女性，Ct值20.4，與之前確診的母子所住的病房是隔壁房。

新北市長侯友宜說：「陰轉陽其實本身並沒有傳染力，更重要一點就是亞東醫院非常地積極面對，已經連續三次全面採檢，將近1萬5000人都是陰性，所以亞東醫院其實他們已經全面都在備戰當中。」

亞東醫院依空間時序研判為同一傳播鏈，立即匡列接觸者並採取隔離管制措施，圍堵病毒。而台北市房仲群聚案擴大，房仲友人到麵館內用，傳染給松山區某幼兒園老師，任職的幼兒園及兼課的補習班共147人被匡列居家隔離，27日晚間來自3所不同國小的學生、職員共5人確診，市府28日下午將派採檢車進駐校園。

台北市政府發言人陳智菡表示：「針對每一位的確診案，台北市政府都非常地重視，所以我們會積極地，擴大採檢匡列隔離，如果有被匡列隔離，也希望大家能夠盡量配合，我們希望及時地阻斷感染鏈。」

疫情升溫，餐廳內用政策是否該調整，台北市預計在春節提升防疫警戒為2.5級，目前相關內容還在討論中，而其他五都暫不跟進。疫情相對嚴重的高雄和桃園，也祭出比中央更嚴格要求。