Taiwan’s “epidemic epidemic command center” announced today (20) that there were 26,943 new local cases, 253 more imported cases, and 57 more deaths among the confirmed cases. In response to the “command center” yesterday’s announcement that three categories of people, such as riding motorcycles, bicycles, and outdoor workers in open spaces, are not required to wear masks, commander Wang Bisheng also said that “you can also avoid wearing masks when you take a walk”, which made many people wonder how to define it? Wang Bisheng once again stated today that you should carry a mask with you. For example, when you are walking or exercising in Hebin Park, you don’t need to wear it in an open environment, but if you are walking in a department store, you should wear a mask.
The “command center” said that there were 26,943 new local cases today, 12,577 males, 14,350 females, 16 In the case survey, the age ranged from under 5 years old to over 90 years old. In the distribution of local cases, New Taipei has the most cases with 4,614 cases, followed by Taichung City with an increase of 3,415 cases, and Taoyuan, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan and Changhua all have more than 1,000 cases, and the rest of the counties and cities are all below 1,000 cases.
The “command center” pointed out that there were 57 new local deaths today, including 32 males and 25 females, aged in their 40s to over 90s, all of which were severe infections, 54 had a history of chronic disease, and 37 had not received three doses of the new crown vaccine. The date of diagnosis is between May 18 and July 17, 2022, and the date of death is between June 23 and July 18.
Among the dead cases today, the youngest was a woman in her 40s. She had a history of rheumatism and immunization. She had used immunosuppressive agents, and she had not been vaccinated. She had cough and shortness of breath and did not seek medical attention for several days, July 17. He was in a coma at home. After being sent to the hospital, he was diagnosed with a positive quick test in the emergency room. The first aid failed and he died on the same day. The cause of death was pneumonia and respiratory failure.
The “command center” stated that there were 102 additional cases of moderate and severe cases today, including 53 cases of moderate disease and 49 cases of severe disease, and no new cases of special moderate and severe cases were added.
Taiwan recently reported the first local case of BA.5 community. The case was a woman in her 20s, and the index case of the cluster was the case’s mother. Among the 7 close contacts in the workplace of the index case, one was diagnosed in June and has recently developed mild cough symptoms. Nucleic acid testing is currently being carried out to determine whether it is re-infection or the old symptoms left by the previous diagnosis.
Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team of the “Command Center”, said that the parents of the community infection case were also diagnosed. Later, the PCR test was positive, but because the CT value was too high and the viral load was too low, so Unable to sequence successfully and cannot confirm if it is BA.5. However, from the perspective of family clustering and epidemiology, it is still highly suspected that it is a BA.5 cluster infection, but because there is no evidence of sequential confirmation, it is impossible to confirm whether these two are local BA.5 and will not be included in BA. 5 Added local statistics.
In response to the doubts caused by the mask-free policy, Commander Wang Bisheng said that although masks may not be required on some occasions, masks should be carried with you. It is necessary to wear a mask, and the public can measure for themselves.
Wang Bisheng also mentioned that, for example, when walking or exercising in the riverside park, the environment is very open, of course you don’t need to wear it, but if you go shopping in a department store as a walk, it is difficult to grasp the distance with unspecified objects, and it is impossible to use it. If you have a good social distance, you should wear a mask. You can judge whether you can keep a distance from unspecified objects. This is a very important evaluation standard.
The “command center” stated that among the 253 new cases of overseas immigration today, 150 were males and 103 were females, aged between under 5 years old and in their 70s, and the entry date was between June this year. 21st July to 19th July. Among them, the United States has the most entry, with 8 cases.
According to the statistics of the “Command Center”, up to now, a total of 4,337,076 cases of new coronavirus pneumonia have been diagnosed in Taiwan, including 17,389 imported cases, 4,319,633 local cases, 36 “Dunmu Fleet” cases, 3 aircraft infections, 1 case unknown and 14 cases under investigation; a total of 8,318 deaths have been reported since 2020. (Jingxian Lin/Editor)