The local epidemic of COVID-19 has heated up for six consecutive days. The island has added 43,040 new local cases today, an increase of 12.8% from last week, and another 45 imported cases and 48 deaths. Since 2020, a total of 6.5 million confirmed cases and 11,101 deaths have been reported on the island.
Taiwan Epidemic Command Center spokesperson Zhuang Renxiang said that the number of cases in Japan today decreased by 240 compared with yesterday, a decrease of 0.6%, and 4,883 more than last Saturday, an increase of 12.8%. Today, the number of cases in Japan is New Taipei has increased by 8,756 in a single day, followed by Taichung 5,745, 4846 in Taipei City, 4,705 in Taoyuan, 43,863 in Kaohsiung 3, 2,811 in Tainan, and 2,268 in Changhua, etc.;
At the same time, 170 new cases of moderate illness, 57 severe illness cases were added today, and another 48 deaths were added. The deaths were between the 40s and over 90s, all of which were severe infections, including 44 cases with a history of chronic illness and 30 cases without more than 3 doses of vaccine. At present, there are 234 severe cases of children on the island, including 431 cases of encephalitis, 25 cases of pneumonia, 42 cases of myocarditis, 3 cases of sepsis, 11 cases of croup, 8 cases of deaths at home, 151 cases of MIS-C, 3 cases of total disease, and 3 cases of deaths. In terms of vaccination situations, Zhuang Renxiang said that yesterday, 7,136 children aged 6 months old to 4 years old were vaccinated with Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, of which 3,383 were vaccinated with the first dose, and 3,753 were vaccinated with the second dose. Currently, the coverage rate of the first dose of children is 39.6%, and the second dose is 9%. In terms of Moderna's next-generation vaccine, a total of 16,752 people were vaccinated yesterday.
Currently, the coverage rate of the first dose of vaccine on the island is 93.7%, the second dose is 87.7%, the additives are 73.7%, and the second additives are 11%, of which 38.5% are over 65 years old. (Xue Yang/Edited)
