Coronavirus Taiwan - Specific Developments May/June 2022

KHHville · May 7, 2022, 4:05am

in the U.S. you can make upwards to $1000 per day waiting in line for someone. must be a racket already going on in Taiwan for rapid tests, too

QuaSaShao · May 7, 2022, 4:06am

Switch the stools and umbrellas and watch the fun.

tempogain · May 7, 2022, 4:07am

It makes a lot more sense than standing in line!

BigDave · May 7, 2022, 4:22am

Amazing that they can’t come up with a better system.

BigDave · May 7, 2022, 4:26am

Went to the school today to collect tests. Walked into the office and nobody is wearing a mask.

I just defended teachers to my family and they let me down.

Looked stupid trying to grab them. One didn’t even have it on her.

Wouldn’t care apart from the fact my kid’s teacher was questioning her about not wearing a mask in her own house and they are demanding we do rapid tests.

TaipAmy · May 7, 2022, 4:28am

They did. Chumbrellas are a friend indeed.

MalcolmReynolds · May 7, 2022, 4:53am

It’s unfair.

Old fuckers who live nearby just put a stool there and then showing up five minutes before 2pm is hardly equitable.

It’s the standard selfish Taiwanese behavior that grinds me.

MalcolmReynolds · May 7, 2022, 4:54am

Then, I’d be on tonight’s TVBS broadcast segment of “Look what evil white foreigners do to the helpless elderly of Taiwan!”

Should I toss banana peels all over the stools, too?

tempogain · May 7, 2022, 5:00am

They’re just going to spread coronavirus if they stand together there. Less coronavirus, win

QuaSaShao · May 7, 2022, 5:01am

Wear one of these:

DrewC · May 7, 2022, 5:10am

Has anyone heard about a pregnant woman dying? My wife says she saw it on the news ticker, but you know the media here has a habit of sensationalizing or just plain making up shit.

MalcolmReynolds · May 7, 2022, 5:10am

I saw it.

Reportedly, the baby died earlier and she just died herself. It’s attributed to Covid and she only had one dose of vaccine. Reportedly.

tempogain · May 7, 2022, 5:32am

3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Personal experiences in the testing/reporting/quarantine process

SuiGeneris · May 7, 2022, 5:31am

Simplemart is selling test kit packs of 5 for 900NT. No lines.

meishijia · May 7, 2022, 5:32am

Almost twice as expensive as pharmacy tho

SuiGeneris · May 7, 2022, 5:34am

The cost of convenience I guess

bdog · May 7, 2022, 5:39am

What are people’s opinions on the chances of a Taiwan hospital doing their homework and discovering something like this in a Covid fatality here.

I’m being cynical, but it’s very low cost to just write Covid on the death certificate.

MalcolmReynolds · May 7, 2022, 6:05am

Covid Stats For 2022-05-07

Local = 46,377

Airport = 56

Quarantine = 103

Deaths = 11

46,536 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, 46,377 local and 159 imported cases

Release date: 2022-05-07

Summary

The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (7) that there were 46,536 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, including 46,377 local cases and 159 imported cases (56 were positive for flight landing tests); 11 deaths.

The command center said that there were 46,377 new local cases today, including 22,270 males, 24,093 females, and 14 under investigation, aged between 5 and over 90 years old. The cases are distributed in New Taipei City (16,670 cases), Taipei City City (9,245 cases), Taoyuan City (6,882 cases), Taichung City (2,517 cases), Kaohsiung City (2,163 cases), Keelung City (1,910 cases), Tainan City (1,352 cases), Yilan County (840 cases), Hualien County (803 cases), Hsinchu County (788 cases), Pingtung County (584 cases), Changhua County (517 cases), Hsinchu City (457 cases), Yunlin County (369 cases), Miaoli County (338 cases), Nantou County (266 cases), Taitung County (261 cases), Chiayi County (188 cases), Chiayi City (110 cases), Penghu County (74 cases), Lianjiang County (22 cases), Kinmen County (21 cases), The related epidemic investigation is ongoing.

The command center pointed out that there were 11 new local deaths today, including 7 males and 4 females, aged in their 40s to over 90 years old. The date of diagnosis is between April 24 and May 3, today (2022), and the date of death is between April 30 and May 4. Please refer to the attachment to the press release for details.

According to the command center, among the 159 new cases of immigration today, 75 were males and 84 were females, aged between 5 and 80 years old, from the Philippines (4 cases), the Czech Republic, Japan, Thailand and the United States ( 1 case each) was transferred in, and the other 151 cases were transferred into the national investigation. The entry dates are from March 12 to May 6 this year.

According to the statistics of the command center, up to now, a total of 8,882,852 notifications related to the new coronavirus pneumonia have been reported in Taiwan (including 8,568,101 excluded), of which 314,983 were confirmed, including 11,811 imported cases, 303,118 local cases, 36 Dunmu Fleet cases, 3 aircraft infections, 1 Unknown cases and 14 cases under investigation. Since 2020, a total of 907 COVID-19 deaths have been reported, of which 892 are local. The counties and cities where the cases live are: 432 in New Taipei City, 333 in Taipei City, 36 in Keelung City, 32 in Taoyuan City, 15 in Changhua County, and 15 in Hsinchu County. 14 cases, 6 cases each in Taichung City and Yilan County, 4 cases in Hualien County, 3 cases each in Miaoli County and Pingtung County, 2 cases each in Kaohsiung City and Yunlin County, Hsinchu City, Nantou County, Tainan City and Taitung County each 1 case; 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.

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From 0:00 on May 8th, the adjustment of the list of close contacts will be based on the principle of living with relatives and friends, and the workplace and school will be responsive; the electronic fence measures for those who are isolated at home will be cancelled.

Release date: 2022-05-07

Summary

The Central Epidemic Command Center said today (7) that in view of the recent rapid increase in the local epidemic situation, in order to strengthen the capacity and resilience of epidemic prevention, the command center invited local governments on the afternoon of May 6 to communicate on the adjustment of home isolation measures. After the command center held an expanded epidemic prevention meeting in the morning, the conclusions were as follows:

The close contacts should be listed in accordance with the principle of living with relatives and friends, and the workplace and school should take independent measures, and implement measures such as epidemic prevention leave and suspension of classes according to the exposure risk.

Adjusting the principles for issuing home quarantine orders In order to preserve the capacity of public health and epidemic prevention, the issuance of home quarantine orders is only for confirmed cases living with family members and college students living with roommates. Only those with special needs can apply separately. Since the implementation date, the new and old cases of this measure will be implemented simultaneously. In addition, the command center has developed the electronic operation of home quarantine notices and confirmed case isolation treatment notices. If local governments implement relevant suggestions, they should submit them within 3 days.

The electronic fence measures are still maintained during the isolation treatment, home care and home quarantine of confirmed cases, but the cancellation of the electronic fence measures for those who are isolated at home takes into account the characteristics of the Omicron virus strain, which is a rapid transmission mode with mild and asymptomatic symptoms, and The people have high compliance with the home isolation measures. In addition, there are a large number of people in home isolation. Most of the isolation notices cannot be issued within 3 days immediately. Therefore, the 3+4 home isolation measures are adopted and the electronic fence measures are cancelled.

All local governments are requested to complete the installation of enhanced centralized quarantine stations/epidemic hotels based on the population ratio of each county and city in accordance with the principle of setting up centralized quarantine stations/epidemic prevention hotels of the enhanced version of the command center before the end of May, so as to implement the separation of mild and severe cases of confirmed cases. Care scheduling.

The command center appeals to adjust the epidemic prevention measures in a rolling manner in response to the development of the epidemic. Everyone is responsible for epidemic prevention. All people are requested to cooperate with the government’s epidemic prevention measures during the epidemic, complete vaccinations as soon as possible, implement self-epidemic prevention, maintain good personal hygiene habits, wear masks, Wash hands frequently and maintain social distancing; implement temperature measurement and other related measures when entering and exiting public areas, download and use the “Taiwan Social Distancing APP”; confirmed cases do report “Self-reporting of confirmed cases to the epidemic control system”, and work together to maintain domestic epidemic prevention and safety.

Today (2022) the eighth batch of 1,253,300 doses of Moderna vaccine will arrive in Taiwan this afternoon (7)

Release date: 2022-05-07

Summary

The Central Epidemic Command Center said today (7) that the eighth batch of 1,253,300 doses of Moderna vaccine purchased this year will arrive at Taoyuan International Airport this afternoon. , and then provide vaccinations to those listed in the COVID-19 vaccination plan. This batch is valid until December 5, 2022.

The command center stated that on July 22, 2021, Taiwan signed a two-year supply contract with the US company Moderna for a total of 35 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, and it is scheduled to supply 20 million doses of the vaccine this year. Currently, a total of 9.1884 million doses have arrived. The first batch of 1,512,100 doses on January 25, the second batch of 1,404,800 doses on February 15, the third batch of 1,224,600 doses on February 27, the fourth batch of 200,400 doses on April 23, and the fifth batch on April 27 1,371,600 doses, the sixth batch of 1,106,100 doses on May 3, the seventh batch of 1,115,500 doses on May 4, and this batch of 1,253,300 doses.

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Current Severity of Symptoms Statistics

Local Cases By Districts (Interactive Map)

DrewC · May 7, 2022, 6:11am

The good news is the death rate isn’t spiraling yet. We still saw bigger daily deaths during the much smaller Alpha outbreak.

meishijia · May 7, 2022, 6:15am

So starting tomorrow the government won’t send quarantine notices to contacts? Does this mean they don’t need to quarantine, or?