Summary
The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (22) that there were 24,093 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, including 23,813 local cases and 280 imported cases; 86 new deaths were confirmed among the confirmed cases.
The command center said that there were 23,813 new local cases today, 10,767 males, 13,034 females, and 12 cases under investigation; the age ranged from under 5 years old to over 90 years old; the cases were distributed in New Taipei City (4,140 cases), Taichung City City (2,846 cases), Taoyuan City (2,562 cases), Kaohsiung City (2,513 cases), Taipei City (2,352 cases), Tainan City (1,877 cases), Changhua County (1,089 cases), Pingtung County (765 cases), Miaoli County (648 cases), Hsinchu County (644 cases), Yilan County (601 cases), Yunlin County (586 cases), Hsinchu City (569 cases), Hualien County (499 cases), Chiayi County (448 cases), Nantou County (434 cases), Keelung City (335 cases), Taitung County (304 cases), Chiayi City (283 cases), Kinmen County (159 cases), Penghu County (131 cases), Lianjiang County (28 cases).
The command center pointed out that there were 86 new deaths from local cases today, including 45 males and 41 females, ranging in age from under 5 years old to over 90 years old. All had severe infections, 83 had a history of chronic disease, 62 hadn’t received the recommended 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccine and 47 hadn’t had any doses at all. The date of diagnosis was between May 20 and July 20, 2022, and the date of death was between May 17 and July 19. Please refer to the attachment to the press release for details.
The command center stated that among the 280 new cases of immigration today, 141 were male and 139 were female, aged between 5 and 80 years old, from France (9 cases), the United States and the United Kingdom (6 cases each). ), Singapore and Vietnam (4 cases each), the Philippines (3 cases), the Netherlands and Malaysia (2 cases each), Australia, China, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Germany ( 1 case in each case), and another 233 cases of infection are under investigation in the country. The entry date is from June 25 to July 21 this year.
According to the statistics of the command center, up to now, a total of 14,455,285 new coronavirus pneumonia-related notifications (including 10,062,451 excluded) have been reported in Taiwan, of which 4,386,289 were confirmed, including 17,935 imported cases, 4,368,300 local cases, 36 Dunmu Fleet cases, 3 aircraft infections, 1 case is unknown and 14 cases are under investigation. Since 2020, a total of 8,478 COVID-19 deaths have occurred, of which 8,463 are local. The counties and cities of the cases are distributed in New Taipei City with 1,916 cases, Taipei City with 996 cases, Taichung City with 821 cases, Kaohsiung City with 768 cases, Tainan City with 643 cases and Taoyuan City. 639 cases in Changhua County, 351 in Pingtung County, 248 in Yunlin County, 240 in Nantou County, 201 in Keelung City, 176 in Miaoli County and 176 in Chiayi County, 168 in Yilan County, 146 in Hualien County, Chiayi There are 133 cases in the city, 130 cases in Hsinchu County, 116 cases in Taitung County, 80 cases in Hsinchu City, 16 cases in Penghu County, and 11 cases in Kinmen County; the other 15 cases were imported from abroad.
The command center once again calls on the public to complete vaccinations as soon as possible, implement personal protective measures such as hand hygiene, cough etiquette and wearing masks, reduce unnecessary movements, activities or gatherings, and avoid going to crowded places or high risk of infection transmission and actively cooperate with various epidemic prevention measures, download and use the “Taiwan Social Distancing APP”, and jointly strictly guard the community defense line.
