{"id":202104,"date":"2022-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwannewswire.com\/?guid=dc7d101d9eac6e0ae2be1f188372a5f9"},"modified":"2022-05-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T00:00:00","slug":"coronavirus-taipei-mayor-in-home-isolation-after-positive-covid-19-rapid-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwannewswire.com\/coronavirus-taipei-mayor-in-home-isolation-after-positive-covid-19-rapid-test\/","title":{"rendered":"CORONAVIRUS\/Taipei mayor in home isolation after positive COVID-19 rapid test"},"content":{"rendered":"
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (???) is currently in home isolation after returning a positive COVID-19 rapid test result, the city government said Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ko said in a social media post that he had taken a rapid test earlier on Sunday after developing symptoms such as a cough and sore throat.<\/p>\n
According to Taipei City government spokesperson Vicky Chen (???), Ko took a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at Taipei City Hospital’s Renai Branch following his positive rapid test, with the result of the PCR test still pending.<\/p>\n
Ko said he was feeling fine and that the situation would not affect his work as mayor.<\/p>\n
Ko added that he had also taken precautions so as to not infect his wife, a pediatrician at the Taipei City Hospital’s Heping Branch.<\/p>\n
Should his PCR test also come back positive, Ko will become the second local government head in Taiwan to catch the virus after Kinmen County Magistrate Yang Cheng-wu (???), who tested positive around a week ago.<\/p>\n
Update: On Sunday evening, Chen confirmed that the results of Ko’s PCR test had come back positive, with a CT value of 16, and that he had also developed a mild fever.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (???) is currently in home isolation after returning a positive COVID-19 rapid test result, the city government said Sunday.Ko said in a social media post that he had taken a rapid test earlier on Sunday after developing symptoms…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n