{"id":102427,"date":"2020-02-16T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/taiwan-reports-first-death-from-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:47:42","slug":"taiwan-reports-first-death-from-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/taiwan-reports-first-death-from-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan reports first death from coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/taiwan-reports-first-death-from-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wuhan Coronavirus continues its deadly worldwide expansion, with a fifth death outside of China, and a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia had a passenger that tested positive, but flew back to Malaysia anyway. Unbelievable!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA further 70 people on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan on Sunday tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total to 355, as countries began to fly their citizens on the ship home.<\/p>\n<p>There is also growing concern over possible infections among people who disembarked from the MS Westerdam in Cambodia on Friday, after it was confirmed that one passenger, who later flew to Malaysia, tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Four other deaths have occurred outside mainland China \u2013 in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and France.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A taxi driver has died from the coronavirus in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\" class=\"\">Taiwan<\/a>, marking the first such death on the island and the fifth fatality outside mainland China from an epidemic that has curbed travel and disrupted global supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>The health minister, Chen Shih-chung, said during a news conference on Sunday that the deceased was a 61-year-old man who had diabetes and hepatitis B. Taiwan has to date reported 20 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/taiwan-reports-first-death-from-coronavirus\">Continue reading \u201cTaiwan reports first death from coronavirus\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wuhan Coronavirus continues its deadly worldwide expansion, with a fifth death outside of China, and a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia had a passenger that tested positive, but flew back to Malaysia anyway. Unbelievable! \u201cA further 70 people on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan on Sunday tested positive for Covid-19, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102776,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102427\/revisions\/102776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}