Weekend factor? Taiwan reported more than 66,000 local cases, 40 more deaths, and data continued to decline

The island reported 66,247 new local cases of the new crown today, including 173 moderately severe cases, 40 new deaths among the confirmed cases, and 36 imported cases. Zhuang Renxiang, a spokesman for the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, said that the number of cases has been declining for several days, but it may be caused by the weekend.

66,247 new local cases were added today, 31,588 males and 34,625 females, Among the 34 investigations, the age ranged from under 5 years old to over 90 years old, and the cases were distributed in New Taipei City (15,708 cases), Taoyuan City (8,636 cases), Kaohsiung City (7,286 cases), Taipei City (7,185 cases), Taichung City (7,140 cases), Tainan City (4,501 cases), Changhua County (1,979 cases), Pingtung County (1,973 cases), Hsinchu County (1,927 cases), Keelung City (1,478 cases), Yilan County (1,473 cases), Hsinchu City (1,300), Miaoli County (1,130), Hualien (1,033), Yunlin (906), Nantou (843), Chiayi (568), Taitung (549), Chiayi City (317 cases), Penghu County (159 cases), Kinmen County (119 cases), Matsu (37 cases), related epidemic investigations are continuing.

Today, 40 new local deaths were reported, including 30 males and 10 females, aged between 5 and over 90 years old, all of them were severe infections, and 37 had a history of chronic diseases , 15 cases without vaccination. The date of diagnosis is from April 12 to May 21, 2022, and the date of death is from May 6 to May 20.

Today, there are 36 new cases of overseas immigration, 20 males and 16 females, aged between 10s and 70s, and the date of entry is between May 20 and May 22 this year. day.

According to statistics, since 2020, there have been a total of 1,436 deaths on the island, of which 1,421 are local. The counties and cities where the cases live are 645 in New Taipei City, 451 in Taipei City, 73 in Keelung City, and 73 in Taoyuan City. 42 in Taichung City, 38 in Taichung City, 31 in Changhua County, 24 in Kaohsiung City, 22 in Hualien County, 17 in Hsinchu County, 16 in Pingtung County, 12 in Taitung County, 10 in Tainan City, and 9 in Yilan County , 8 cases in Yunlin County, 6 cases each in Chiayi County, Miaoli County and Nantou County, 2 cases each in Chiayi City and Kinmen County, and 1 case in Hsinchu City; the other 15 cases were imported from abroad. (Xue Yang/Editor)