Taiwan's health authorities are stepping up their precautions and continuing to monitor for cases of the novel coronavirus (officially known as 2019-nCoV) due to the high rate of travel in the region as many return from the Lunar New Year holiday. Amid existing confirmed cases entering Taiwan via China, three new cases were reported Thursday night to have been picked up and brought to Taiwan through Macau and Hong Kong. There is an increased worry that imported cases could spread locally.

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