FILE PHOTO: Customers wear protective masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while shopping at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Ann Wang
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan health authorities said on Wednesday they had confirmed the first case of the highly transmissible South African variant of COVID-19, in an eSwatini national being treated in hospital.
The infection with the variant had been confirmed on Tuesday by laboratory test, the Central Epidemic Command Centre said.
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