On February 25, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced five new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Those five new cases (Cases #948-952) are five female migrant workers from the Philippines, with their ages ranging between 20 and 40 years old. They traveled to Taiwan on the same flight on February 3 and arrived without symptoms.

The CECC pointed out that those five migrant workers were tested for COVID-19 before completing the quarantine period on February 16, they all tested negative. After completing the quarantine period, their labor brokers arranged for them to visit the hospital to take a self-paid test on February 23, and they tested positive. Infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in the cases on February 25 (those five migrant workers were given RT-PCR tests, and they all tested negative on February 24; Case #951 tested positive for both IgM and IgG antibodies while the other four migrant workers tested negative for IgM and positive for IgG antibodies).

The CECC reported that a cumulative total of 173,472 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 171,619. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 951 cases. Of the 951 confirmed cases, 835 are imported; 77 are indigenous; 36 are naval crew members aboard the Panshi fast combat support ship; 2 are infections on an aircraft; 1 case has unknown sources of infection; and 1 case (Case #530) has been removed (Case #530 is not assigned to any patients). Of the confirmed cases, there have been 9 deaths, and 906 patients have been released from isolation, with the other 36 patients remaining hospitalized in isolation