[Taipei=AP/Newsis] A customer wearing a mask to prevent Corona 19 is buying bok choy, etc. at a vegetable store in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. 2022.02.24
[Seoul=Newsis] Reporter Jaejoon Lee = In Taiwan, where COVID-19 is spreading again centered on omicron mutations, there were 75 new cases on the 18th, 16 less than the previous day, and no additional deaths were reported for 22 days in a row.
According to the Central News Agency, the Yonhap News Agency, and the China Times, the Central Epidemic Command Center, the headquarters of the Corona 19 countermeasures headquarters, announced that there was one confirmed case in Taiwan and 74 people from abroad.
The confirmed case in Taiwan is a male in his 30s living in southern Taiwan. I was vaccinated twice, but I got a breakthrough infection.
The number of imported infections was 52 men and 22 women, and the age ranged from under 5 to 60. Thirty-six people tested positive immediately after entering the country.
18 from Vietnam, 9 from the United States, 7 from Indonesia, 3 from Canada, 2 from Poland, Cambodia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Malaysia, Russia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and the UK, 1 each. The remaining 26 are being investigated.
With this, the total number of corona infected in Taiwan has risen to 21,658. 15,494 in Taiwan, 6,110 imported from abroad, 36 from the friendly fleet, 2 from aircraft, 1 unknown, 14 people under investigation.
The number of COVID-19 patients was less than 100 on May 10 last year, and after that, the number increased significantly over the next 10 months and 8 days, increasing to more than 25,50 until today.
The command center said that there were no deaths that day among COVID-19 patients. So far, 853 people have died from COVID-19. Of these, 14 are foreigners.
According to the distribution of 839 deaths in Taiwan, 413 in New Taipei City, 322 in Taipei, 29 in Keelung, 28 in Taoyuan, 15 in Changhua County, 13 in Hsinchu County, 5 in Taichung, and 3 in Miaoli County. , two each in Yilan and Hualien counties, and one each in Taitung, Yunlin, Tainan, Nantou, Kaohsiung, Pingtung and Hsinchu.
The command center is urging vigilance against the Omicron mutation, faithfully implementing personal protective measures such as hand hygiene, cough etiquette, and wearing a mask, refraining from unnecessary movement, activities, and gatherings, and refraining from going to crowded places or high-infection risk areas. He urged them to continue to actively cooperate in the prevention of quarantine.
