Taipei, Feb. 16 (CNA) Taiwan on Sunday reported the nation's first death from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a male in his 60s living in central Taiwan, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
The patient has no recent overseas travel history and no known contact with COVID-19 patients, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, said, adding that the authorities are still working to determine how he became infected.
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202002160008
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A 54-year-old man with no travel history and no known contacts with confirmed coronavirus patients was on Sunday diagnosed as Hong Kong’s 57th Covid-19 infection.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1508878-20200216.htm
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SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is considering conducting novel coronavirus tests on all pneumonia patients in the country, health authorities here said Sunday, to check whether the potentially deadly virus has already spread across the nation.
Jung Eun-kyeong, head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), said the government is considering running the coronavirus tests on pneumonia patients in the coming days after consulting with respiratory and infectious disease experts.
The KCDC's latest decision comes after the country reported its 29th case of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, earlier in the day.
The 29th patient, who had no record of overseas travel, was identified after doctors decided to run coronavirus tests when he was found to have pneumonia. The latest patient, an 82-year-old man, is also believed currently to have had no contact with the country's other virus-confirmed patients.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200216002100320
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TOKYO - Infections of a new coronavirus originating in Wuhan further spread in Japan among people with no direct connections to China as new cases were reported in Tokyo, Aichi, Hokkaido and Okinawa on Friday.
The latest cases in Tokyo and Hokkaido involved people with no recent travel history to China and came on the heels of Japan's first coronavirus death -- that of a woman in her 80s in Kanagawa Prefecture, whose son-in-law, a taxi driver, was also found to be infected with the virus.
In Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a man in his 60s who recently returned from a trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the coronavirus, the city government said. He has not visited China recently.
In cases reported Thursday in the western prefecture of Wakayama, a route of contraction is not known, either.
A man in his 70s who was treated at a hospital in Wakayama where a doctor was confirmed to have been infected with the virus has also tested positive for it, local officials said Friday, adding that the two apparently never had any contact.
Elsewhere in Japan, a female taxi driver in her 60s in Okinawa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first confirmed case of infection in the country's southernmost island prefecture or the Kyushu region, local authorities said.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/...virus-after-contact-with-infected-doctor.html
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KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - An American passenger from a cruise ship docked in Cambodia has tested positive for the new coronavirus a second time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia said on Sunday (Feb 16), after the cruise operator sought further tests.
Malaysia said on Saturday the 83-year-old woman who had been on board the
MS Westerdam, operated by a unit of Carnival Corp,
had tested positive for the virus after arriving in Kuala Lumpur from Cambodia. She was the first from the ship, which was carrying 1,455 passengers and 802 crew, to test positive.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/s...ip-westerdam-tests-positive-again-in-malaysia
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