Sunday''s COVID numbers stand at one local case and 11 imported cases, five of which had already been vaccinated but still ended up as breakthrough infections. The one domestic case is a woman in her 60s who is the mother of Case 16,227. She tested negative on Sept. 10 while in the hospital, but her daughter visited her and tested positive. On the 17th, health authorities retested her and the result came back positive.

Chen Shih-chung
Health minister
While in the hospital her test result was negative. But Case 16,227 (the daughter) visited her and tested positive; so later when the mother was retested she too was positive.

Chang Hui-mei
Chief, Taipei Department of Disease Management
For the mother and daughter, both of their Ct values are pretty high, indicating a low virus load. Both of these cases already had identified hospital contacts; a total of 16 which were all negative.

Additionally, in the New Taipei pre-school cluster, nearly 3,600 people were identified for testing, 75 of whom are in the process of being tested and three people are waiting to be tested. The CECC will continue to monitor the situation until Sept. 22.