Summary
The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (31) that there were 25,755 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, including 25,674 local cases and 81 imported cases; 38 new deaths were added among the confirmed cases.
According to the command center, 25,674 new local cases were added today, including 11,650 males, 14,010 females, and 14 cases under investigation. The age ranged from under 5 to over 90 years old. The cases were distributed in New Taipei City (5,405 cases), Taichung City (3,212 cases), Taipei City (2,981 cases), Taoyuan City (2,833 cases), Kaohsiung City (2,442 cases), Tainan City (2,026 cases), Changhua County (1,260 cases), Hsinchu County (923 cases), Hsinchu County City (779 cases), Miaoli County (679 cases), Yunlin County (466 cases), Pingtung County (455 cases), Nantou County (383 cases), Keelung City (375 cases), Chiayi County (371 cases), Yilan County (345 cases), Chiayi City (233 cases), Hualien County (206 cases), Kinmen County (120 cases), Taitung County (103 cases), Penghu County (69 cases), Lianjiang County (8 cases) .
The command center pointed out that there were 38 new local deaths today, including 24 males and 14 females, aged from their 40s to 90s. All of them had severe infections, 35 had a history of chronic diseases, 23 hadn’t received the recommended 3 or more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and 18 hadn’t received any doses at all. The date of diagnosis was from June 5 to December 28 today (2022), and the date of death was from June 7 to December 28, as detailed in the attachment of the press release.
The command center explained that among the 81 new imported cases today, 44 were males and 37 were females, ranging in age from less than 5 years old to over 70 years old, from Japan (2 cases), Hong Kong and Singapore (1 each). case), another 77 infections are under national investigation. The entry date is between November 30 and December 30 this year.
According to the statistics of the command center, as of now, there have been 20,777,062 domestic notifications related to the new type of coronavirus pneumonia (including 11,928,769 cases excluded), of which 8,847,360 cases have been confirmed, including 40,201 cases of overseas imports, 8,807,105 local cases, 36 cases of dunmu fleet, 3 cases of aircraft infection, 1 case is unknown and 14 cases are under investigation. Since 2020, there have been a total of 15,253 COVID-19 deaths, including 15,236 local cases. The counties and cities where the cases lived were distributed as follows: 2,970 cases in New Taipei City, 1,656 cases in Taipei City, 1,628 cases in Taichung City, 1,505 cases in Kaohsiung City, 1,136 cases in Tainan City, and 1,136 cases in Taoyuan City. 1,126 cases, 967 cases in Changhua County, 589 cases in Pingtung County, 500 cases in Yunlin County, 494 cases in Nantou County, 420 cases in Miaoli County, 396 cases in Chiayi County, 323 cases in Yilan County, 314 cases in Keelung City, 264 cases in Hualien County, There were 261 cases in Chiayi City, 254 cases in Hsinchu County, 194 cases in Taitung County, 165 cases in Hsinchu City, 37 cases in Kinmen County, and 37 cases in Penghu County; the other 17 cases were immigrants from abroad.
The command center once again appealed that the public should complete vaccination as soon as possible, implement personal protective measures such as hand hygiene and cough etiquette, reduce unnecessary movement, activities or gatherings, and avoid entering and leaving crowded places or places with high risk of infection transmission. Actively cooperate with various epidemic prevention measures, and remind people with sensitive constitutions, chronic diseases, fever, or respiratory symptoms that it is still recommended to wear masks in densely populated areas to jointly maintain the health of domestic communities.
