Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) Taipei and New Taipei on Monday revealed a number of places visited by a few individuals recently confirmed with COVID-19, including a disease control worker at Taoyuan International Airport, to alert people to possible infection points.
Taipei focused on the movements of the airport worker, a woman in her 40s who conducted saliva tests on inbound passengers and screened them for fevers.
She was reported as having COVID-19 on Sunday after 6,346 airport staff were tested on Jan. 14 and 15, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center.
The woman took the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system between Taipei Main Station and Mingde Station on the red MRT line at different hours in the morning and evening from Jan. 11-15, the Taipei City Health Department said.
On Jan. 13, she went to a 7-Eleven convenience store on Mingde Road in Beitou District from 12:32 a.m. to 12:35 a.m., and visited the Kuang Nan (Xuchang Branch) wholesale store and a Daiso shopping center, also on Xuchang Street, the following afternoon from 4:27 p.m. to 4:54 p.m.
That same evening, the woman visited the Carrefour supermarket in Tianmu, before heading to a FamilyMart convenience store on Mingde Road.
The city department said the woman has since been placed in a government-run quarantine center in Taipei.
Also Monday, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corp. (TRTC) said it received confirmation Sunday that a person with COVID-19 recently visited the Taipei Children's Amusement Park, which it manages and maintains.
The park has been thoroughly disinfected but its indoor food court will be temporarily closed to the public for three days starting Monday as a precaution, the TRTC said.
Those who may have come into contact with the individual, determined based on smartphone tracking systems, have been notified to receive a COVID-19 test, while some of the park workers have been ordered to follow self-health management protocols, it said.
According to New Taipei authorities later Monday, the individual who visited the Taipei amusement park was a female nurse who worked at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in the city's Banqiao District.
The woman, in her 30s, was confirmed Saturday as having COVID-19 after recently coming down with a cough.
Among the places she visited was the Mega City department store in Banqiao, the New Taipei Department of Health said Monday.
It said the department store was being disinfected after it learned that the nurse recently visited a restaurant located within the department store called Haidilao Hot Pot.
She also visited other places in and around Greater Taipei, including the Far Eastern Department Store in Banqiao, the Lihpao Hi-Mall, also in Banqiao, and the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei's Shilin area.
Meanwhile, New Taipei authorities said a COVID-19 case confirmed Monday involved a man whose girlfriend is a nurse at Taipei City Hospital.
The nurse was confirmed as having COVID-19 early last week.
The man visited the Carrefour Xindian store on Jan. 9, the New Taipei government said, noting that he has been in quarantine since his girlfriend tested positive for the disease.
