Summary
The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (16) that there were 23,172 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, including 22,902 local cases and 270 imported cases; 16 new deaths were confirmed among the confirmed cases.
The command center said that there were 22,902 new local cases today, including 10,570 males, 12,322 females, and 10 cases under investigation; the age ranged from under 5 years old to over 90 years old; the cases were distributed in New Taipei City (4,515 cases), Taichung City (2,711 cases), Taipei City (2,668 cases), Taoyuan City (2,218 cases), Kaohsiung City (1,971 cases), Tainan City (1,659 cases), Changhua County (1,132 cases), Miaoli County (765 cases), Ping Dong County (592 cases), Hsinchu County (581 cases), Yilan County (571 cases), Yunlin County (564 cases), Hsinchu City (556 cases), Chiayi County (449 cases), Hualien County (442 cases), Nantou County (388 cases), Keelung City (335 cases), Chiayi City (292 cases), Taitung County (223 cases), Penghu County (142 cases), Kinmen County (116 cases), Lianjiang County (12 cases) .
The command center pointed out that there were 16 new deaths from local cases today, including 9 males and 7 females, aged in their 50s to 90s. All had severe infections and had a history of chronic disease, 11 hadn’t received the recommended 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccine and 6 hadn’t had any doses at all. The date of diagnosis was between June 27 and August 13, today (2022), and the date of death was between June 10 and August 13. Please refer to the attachment to the press release for details.
The command center stated that among the 270 new cases of immigration today, 157 were males and 113 were females, ranging in age from under 5 to over 80 years old, from Thailand (13 cases), Vietnam (9 cases), and Canada. , South Korea, Cambodia and the United States (6 cases each), Malaysia, the United Kingdom and Indonesia (4 cases each), Sweden (3 cases), Latvia, India, Australia, Japan and Turkey (2 cases each), Guatemala, Singapore and Hong Kong (1 case each), and another 196 cases of infection are under investigation in the country. The entry date is from July 19 to August 15 this year.
According to the statistics of the command center, up to now, a total of 15,492,462 cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia have been reported in China (including 10,558,732 excluded), of which 4,927,754 were confirmed, including 23,776 imported cases, 4,903,924 local cases, 36 Dunmu Fleet cases, 3 aircraft infections, 1 case is unknown and 14 cases are under investigation. Since 2020, a total of 9,473 COVID-19 deaths have been reported, of which 9,458 are local. The counties and cities of the cases are distributed in New Taipei City with 2,040 cases, Taipei City with 1,073 cases, Taichung City with 944 cases, Kaohsiung City with 877 cases, Tainan City with 738 cases and Taoyuan City. 714 cases in Changhua County, 396 in Pingtung County, 291 in Yunlin County, 279 in Nantou County, 218 in Miaoli County, 215 in Chiayi County, 213 in Keelung City, 191 in Yilan County, 155 in Chiayi City, There are 153 cases in Hualien County, 147 in Hsinchu County, 138 in Taitung County, 88 in Hsinchu City, 21 in Penghu County, and 16 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.
