(Observer Network News) According to Taiwanese media Dongsen News, the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center announced on August 1 that there were 16,584 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the island, including 16,352 local cases and 232 imported cases. 36 deaths were added.
According to a report by China Times News, two new local BA.5 cases with unknown source of infection were added in Taiwan today, which are suspected to be community infections.
Data map of Taiwan epidemic. Picture from Zhongshi News Network
According to the command center, there were 16,352 new local cases today, of which 7,802 were male and 8,541 were female.
The command center pointed out that there were 36 new deaths from local cases today, including 19 males and 17 females, aged in their 60s to over 90s. Get 3 doses of the new crown vaccine.
The command center said that of the 232 newly imported cases, 131 were male and 101 were female, ranging in age from under 5 to over 70 years old. The entry date is from July 1 to July 31 this year.
According to the statistics of the command center, as of now, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the island has reached 4,604,761, including 20,283 imported cases, 4,584,424 local cases, 36 Dunmu Fleet, 3 aircraft infections, 1 unknown and 14 investigations. middle. Since 2020, a total of 8,963 new coronary pneumonia deaths have been reported, of which 8,948 are local cases and 15 are imported cases.