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Taiwan has announced one new death and 286 new local cases of Covid-19 today.
The death was a woman in her 70s who worked in Wanhua – the centre of Taipei’s outbreak – and she died at home, the minister for health and welfare said. Her family have since been hospitalised.
You can just distance from each other at the press conference, this is a pretty alarming scene to put on TV https://t.co/3bQTyvzyne
Chen is reminding citizens again to not leave home and go around the city. He urges them to stay home and watch TV or read. He also called on citizens from cutting down gatherings but he tells them to bear with it for a while.
PA report that the UK’s transport secretary Grant Shapps has defended the continued availability of direct flights from countries such as India on the coronavirus “red list”.
He told Sky News: “You cannot prevent British citizens from returning home, no country can ban its own citizens.”
