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COVID-19 cluster infection incident at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

The Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport COVID-19 cluster, also known as the Taoyuan Airport cluster, was a cluster of COVID-19 infections that began on 2 January 2022 at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. On 3 January, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that a parking lot cleaner at the airport had tested positive for COVID-19; the case had previously operated a stall at Zhongzhen Market. The following day, after the number of linked infections increased to four, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) immediately established a forward command post at the airport in response. As of 23 February, a total of 789 people had been confirmed in connection with the cluster, including cleaners, epidemic-prevention taxi drivers, airport security personnel, members of the Golden Voice Singing Club, baggage cart workers, home-care workers, electronics factory employees, bank employees, restaurant staff and customers, teachers and students, motorcycle shop workers, factory workers, their household contacts, and cases identified through expanded contact tracing. The ages of those infected ranged from under five years old to over seventy.

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