Summary
The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (6) that there were 34,577 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, including 34,499 local cases and 78 imported cases; 95 new deaths were confirmed among the confirmed cases.
The command center said that there were 34,499 new local cases today, including 15,919 males, 18,561 females, and 19 under investigation, aged from under 5 years old to over 90 years old. The cases are distributed in New Taipei City (5,324 cases), Taichung City (4,669 cases), Taoyuan City (3,687 cases), Kaohsiung City (3,608 cases), Taipei City (3,110 cases), Tainan City (2,902 cases), Changhua County (1,880 cases), Pingtung County (1,362 cases), Yunlin County (900 cases), Miaoli County (882 cases), Hsinchu County (878 cases), Yilan County (796 cases), Hsinchu City (755 cases), Nantou County (688 cases), Chiayi County (671 cases), Hualien County (607 cases), Taitung County (492 cases), Keelung City (449 cases), Chiayi City (424 cases), Penghu County (219 cases), Kinmen County (162 cases), Lianjiang County (34 cases) .
The command center pointed out that there were 95 new local deaths today, including 52 males and 43 females, aged between under 5 and over 90 years old. All had severe infections, 87 had a history of chronic disease, 62 had not received the recommended 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccine and 38 had not any doses at all. The date of diagnosis was between May 7 and July 3, 2022, and the date of death was between May 24 and July 3. Please refer to the attachment to the press release for details.
The command center stated that among the 78 new cases of immigration today, 45 were males and 33 were females, ranging in age from under 5 to over 70 years old, from the United States (7 cases), Austria (4 cases), and Vietnam. (3 cases), Thailand and Poland (2 cases each), Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines (1 case each), and another 56 infected countries are under investigation. The entry date is from June 30 to July 5 this year.
According to the statistics of the command center, up to now, a total of 13,723,230 new coronavirus pneumonia-related notifications (including 9,755,385 excluded) have been reported in Taiwan, of which 3,964,188 were confirmed, including 15,176 imported cases, 3,948,958 local cases, 36 Dunmu Fleet cases, 3 aircraft infections, 1 case is unknown and 14 cases are under investigation. Since 2020, a total of 7,223 COVID-19 deaths have occurred, of which 7,208 are local. The counties and cities of the cases are distributed as New Taipei City with 1,758 cases, Taipei City with 915 cases, Taichung City with 675 cases, Kaohsiung City with 616 cases, Taoyuan City with 570 cases and Tainan City. 491 cases in Changhua County, 294 in Pingtung County, 194 in Yunlin County, 193 in Nantou County, 178 in Keelung City, 155 in Yilan County, 142 in Miaoli County, 131 in Chiayi County, 116 in Hualien County, There are 115 cases in Hsinchu County, 113 cases in Chiayi City, 89 cases in Taitung County, 68 cases in Hsinchu City, 9 cases each in Kinmen County and Penghu 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 movement, activities or gatherings, and avoid entering and leaving 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.