Mouse bite may have infected Taiwan lab worker with Covid

Employee at high-security facility tests positive in island's first local infection in weeks

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Health officials in Taiwan are investigating whether a mouse bite may have been responsible for a laboratory worker testing positive for Covid, the island's first local infection in weeks.

The authorities are scrambling to work out how the employee at Academia Sinica, the country's top research institute, contracted the virus last month.