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Taiwan’s Centre Epidemic Command Center has disclosed information about a Taiwanese woman who showed symptoms upon her return to Taiwan; countering multiple Egyptian government statements that she was the source of the virus in their country. Instead, they said, the woman contracted the virus during her visit to Egypt.

The woman returned to Taiwan in late February after taking a Nile cruise in the southern city of Luxor. 12 staff members on the same boat later tested positive for the virus, along with 33 passengers who arrived for a later cruise on the same ship. All 45 have been quarantined at a separate site, while other passengers on board told reporters they remain quarantined onboard.

Egyptian officials have repeatedly said the Taiwanese woman was the source of the virus in the country; the Arab world’s most populous nation. But, according to a statement from Taiwan’s Centre for Disease control, the woman known as case #39 contracted a different strain of the virus to other Taiwanese patients.