(Fight against new coronary pneumonia) Taiwan’s new coronary cases rise after mid-autumn holiday, admission policy adjustment is yet to be determined
China News Agency, Taipei, September 13 After 83 days, Taiwan announced on the 13th that there were more than 46,000 new local confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in a single day.
According to reports from Taiwanese media such as China Times News Network, United News Network and Central News Agency, September 9-11 is the holiday of Taiwan’s Mid-Autumn Festival. Taiwan announced on the 12th that there were 25,346 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia locally and on the 13th it announced 46,795 new cases, the highest since June 23 (the peak of the latest round of the outbreak). Omicron BA.5 variant outbreak Announced the only day with the highest number of new cases.
In the press conference on the 13th, the spokesman for the “outbreak command center” of the Taiwanese authorities said that the number of cases increased that day (Tuesday) by 28% compared to last Tuesday.
Last week, the command center completed gene sequencing of 174 local cases, including 88 BA.5 variants, accounting for 50.6%. Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team at the “Epidemic Epidemic Command Center”, said that more than half of the cases infected with the BA.5 mutant strain showed that BA.5 became the main Omicron mutant strain on the island. .
According to the current method used by the relevant departments of Taiwan authorities to determine repeat infection of new coronal pneumonia, Luo Yijun said that a total of 14,400 people in Taiwan have been repeatedly diagnosed with new coronal pneumonia.
Adjusting Taiwan’s entry policy since the outbreak of the new coronal pneumonia outbreak has been one of the island’s hot topics recently. Taiwan’s “epidemic command center” said on the 13th that the epidemic in Taiwan is on the rise and that if the restrictions on entry are lifted, “this week’s observation is very important”.
In addition, according to Taiwanese authorities’ “CDC” statistics, a total of 12 local cases of dengue fever have been detected so far this year, of which 10 in Kaohsiung and 2 in Taichung. (End)
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