Taiwan reported 531 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia today, including 382 local cases and 149 imported cases, 78 of which were positive for flight landing tests, and no new deaths were confirmed in the confirmed cases. Chen Shizhong, commander of the epidemic “command center”, said that today’s confirmed cases are the most in the past few days since this wave of epidemics. Many transmission chains have been observed, and the number of local cases under observation will continue to increase.
The “command center” said that 382 new local cases were added today, including 188 males and 194 females. The age ranged from under 5 years old to more than 80 years old, and the onset date was from March 29 to April 7, 2022, including 165 cases of asymptomatic infection. The distribution of cases is New Taipei City (111 cases), Taipei City (87 cases), Kaohsiung City (59 cases), Keelung City (41 cases), Taoyuan City (28 cases), Hualien County (16 cases), Chiayi County (8 cases) ), Hsinchu County (7 cases), Tainan City and Pingtung County (5 cases each), Taichung City (4 cases), Hsinchu City (3 cases), Kinmen County, Yilan County and Yunlin County (2 cases each), Miaoli County and Changhua County (1 case each). The related epidemic investigation is ongoing.
Taiwan added more than 300 local cases today. Is it possible that it will exceed 10,000 in two weeks? Huang Limin, honorary chairman of the Taiwan Infectious Diseases Medical Association, said in an interview with Taiwan’s “United Daily News” that he expects that the number of confirmed cases in Taiwan will exceed 1,000 in a single day, but it is very difficult to exceed 10,000.
It’s not that there are no 10,000 people diagnosed, but “even if there are, they can’t be caught, but severe cases can’t be escaped.”
Huang Limin explained that the most important reason is that “there are not so many tests.” The current situation in Taiwan is that medical personnel do not want to take so many tests, and the tests are not so convenient. It is difficult to change the status quo in Taiwan.
According to the statistics of the “Command Center”, there were a total of 2,342 cases in Japan from January 1 to April 6, of which 2,337 were mild or asymptomatic, accounting for 99.79%, and five were moderately severe, accounting for 0.21%.
In addition, due to the increase in the number of people being screened due to the heating up of the epidemic, Chen Shizhong also said that if all people who go to the hospital for a test are mildly ill, they will go home and report it. They can also download the health care app to check the results. Once the result is positive, the hospital will notify the Health Bureau to arrange for admission to an enhanced quarantine center or an anti-epidemic hotel.
In addition, Taiwan’s epidemic prevention personnel will also conduct epidemic investigations for positive cases imported from abroad in the past. Chen Shizhong said, “This is equivalent to helping foreign countries to conduct epidemic investigations.” However, due to the current pressure of the epidemic on Taiwan Island, epidemic investigations will no longer be carried out for those who enter the country who are positive, but they will still be notified through IHR.
In addition, the cases that were tested positive before the expiration of the period will no longer be tested, but Chen Shizhong said that because it is obvious that they were infected overseas, but if the time series is considered to be related or the Ct value is low. Cases suspected of being infected in quarantine facilities will still be investigated. (Editor: Fang Yanyan)