Summary
The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today (17) that there were 20,127 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, including 20,078 local cases and 49 imported cases; 77 new deaths among confirmed cases.
According to the command center, 20,078 new local cases were added today, including 9,188 males, 10,884 females, 6 cases under investigation, and the age ranged from less than 5 years old to over 90 years old. The distribution of cases was New Taipei City (3,316 cases), Kaohsiung City (2,670 cases), Taichung City (2,545 cases), Taoyuan City (2,115 cases), Tainan City (1,949 cases), Taipei City (1,837 cases), Changhua County (974 cases), Pingtung County (657 cases), Hsinchu County (577 cases), Yunlin County (469 cases), Hsinchu City (469 cases), Miaoli County (464 cases), Chiayi County (368 cases), Nantou County (363 cases), Yilan County (323 cases), Keelung City (318 cases), Chiayi City (235 cases), Hualien County (223 cases), Taitung County (119 cases), Kinmen County (43 cases), Penghu County (39 cases), Lianjiang County (5 cases) .
The command center pointed out that there were 77 local deaths today, including 46 males and 31 females, aged from their 40s to 90s. All of had severe infections, 76 had a history of chronic diseases, 58 hadn’t received the recommended 3 or more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and 48 hadn’t received any doses at all. The date of diagnosis was from October 7th to November 14th today (2022), and the date of death was from October 25th to November 14th, as detailed in the attachment of the press release.
The command center explained that among the 49 new imported cases today, 29 were males and 20 were females, aged between 10s and 70s, from Thailand (4 cases), China, South Korea, Slovakia, Indonesia (1 case each) imported and another 41 infected under national investigation. The entry date is between October 17 and November 15 this year.
According to the statistics of the command center, as of now, there have been a total of 19,840,554 notifications related to the new type of coronavirus pneumonia in Taiwan (including 11,725,592 cases excluded), of which 8,112,234 cases were confirmed, respectively 37,113 cases of overseas importation, 8,075,067 cases of 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 13,791 COVID-19 deaths, including 13,774 local cases. The counties and cities where the cases lived were distributed as follows: 2,755 cases in New Taipei City, 1,535 cases in Taipei City, 1,432 cases in Taichung City, 1,336 cases in Kaohsiung City, 1,024 cases in Taoyuan City, and 1,024 cases in Tainan City. 1,018 cases, 837 cases in Changhua County, 545 cases in Pingtung County, 446 cases in Nantou County, 425 cases in Yunlin County, 374 cases in Miaoli County, 353 cases in Chiayi County, 300 cases in Keelung City, 297 cases in Yilan County, 240 cases in Hualien County, There were 233 cases in Chiayi City, 222 in Hsinchu County, 183 in Taitung County, 150 in Hsinchu City, 36 in Penghu County, and 33 in Kinmen County; the other 17 cases were immigrants.
The command center once again appealed that the public should complete vaccination 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 The venue, and actively cooperate with various epidemic prevention measures, download and use the “Taiwan Social Distance APP”, and jointly strictly guard the community defense line.
