The local cases in Taiwan have exceeded 40,000 for four consecutive days! The "Epidemic Command Center" announced today (16th) that 41,430 new local cases, another 240 cases of immigration from abroad, and 46 new deaths among the confirmed cases. The epidemic situation returned to warm up after the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. Wang Bisheng, commander of the "Command Center", said that according to the model estimate, it is expected that the epidemic peak will reach next Wednesday or next Wednesday, and the "border" opening will not be implemented after the trend goes down, and it should not be in early October.
"Command Center" epidemic monitoring team leader Zhou Zhihao said that the local epidemic continues to rise, with an increase of about 20% compared with last Friday. The vaccine protection measures that people should receive must be implemented. The number of cases of immigrants from abroad remains the same, a little less than the previous day, but they continue to be in a stable state.
"Command Center" announced today that 41,430 new local cases were added, including 19,028 males, 22,389 females, and 13 cases, aged between under 5 and over 90 years old. The total number of cases in 10 counties and cities exceeded 10,000, with New Taipei City the largest increase, followed by 5,294 cases in Taichung City, 4,904 cases in Taipei City, 4,455 cases in Taoyuan City, 3,396 cases in Kaohsiung City, and 2,500 cases in Tainan City; the number of cases that are not "six capitals" is also more than 1,000 cases.
"Command Center" pointed out that 46 new local deaths today were 28 males and 18 females, aged between the 30s and over 90s, all of which were severely infected and had a history of chronic diseases, and 27 cases had not received more than three doses of the new crown vaccine . The date of diagnosis is from July 20 to September 13, 2022, and the date of death is from September 6 to September 13.
For special death cases, Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team of the "Command Center", explained that the youngest among the death cases was a woman in her 30s. It is worth noting that she was diagnosed and completed home care. After about a week of relieving her blood stool, chest tightness, , and shortness of breath came to the emergency room. The PCR nucleic acid test was positive, but her heartbeat suddenly stopped the next day. After the emergency was ineffective, she was declared dead because of heart failure, and the new coronavirus infection.
Another special severe case is MIS-C. Luo Yijun said that the case was a 1-year-old boy, who had no vaccination, had no history of chronic disease, and had not been diagnosed with new coronary . He had continued to have fever on September 6. Parents screened themselves twice and were negative. On September 9, they had red eyes and red throat. The hospital conducted a positive PCR nucleic acid test for the hospital. Ct33.4. It was suspected that he had been infected recently. Blood draw showed an increase in inflammation index. The diagnosis was suspected to be MIS-C hospitalized. The heart ultrasound showed that the left coronary artery was enlarged. He was treated with immunoglobulin and other drugs. He is still hospitalized in the general ward.
According to statistics from the "Command Center", there are currently 211 severe cases under the age of 12 in Taiwan, of which 32 died; there are 132 severe cases of MIS-C, and the rest are 431 encephalitis, 23 pneumonia, 11 croup, 7 deaths at home, 3 sepsis, 3 cases of total disease, and 41 myocarditis.
"Command Center" shows that among the 240 new cases of overseas migration today, 142 males and 98 females, aged between 5 and 80 years old, and the entry date is between August 16 and September 15 this year. The most entry from , Vietnamese , has 35 cases. (Lin Jingxian/editor)
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