Taiwan reports first local coronavirus case in eight months
- Woman tests positive after contact with a New Zealand cargo pilot in Taipei
- Two other pilots in contact with the New Zealander also confirmed with the disease
“The local infection involves a woman in her 30s,” Taiwanese Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said.
The woman was a close contact of a New Zealand cargo plane pilot who worked for a Taiwanese carrier and is thought to have been infected during his flight operations in the United States last month.
The pilot tested positive for the virus on Friday and the woman on Tuesday.
Chen said the pilot, in his 60s, went with the woman in two department stores in Taipei and a hypermarket near Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport between December 7 and December 12.
When asked about his activities on the island, the pilot told health officials he did not recall where he had visited or whom he had been in contact with during his stay in Taiwan.
But the woman said she accompanied him to the three places between those dates, Chen said.