Taiwan yesterday reported 39,808 new COVID-19 infections, including 45 imported cases, and 92 deaths from the disease, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said.
The fatalities reported yesterday included the largest number of deaths reported in a single day from the Omicron BA.5 subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, the center said, adding that the deceased were aged from their 30s to their 90s.
The CECC said that 30 of those who died were unvaccinated against COVID-19.
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As of yesterday, the number of COVID-19 fatalities in the country since the start of the pandemic in 2020 stood at 12,128, CECC data showed.
Even though the number of new domestic cases dropped 25.5 percent from Thursday last week, people should not let their guard down and continue to adhere to disease prevention rules, the CECC said.
The center said that 124 cases were newly classified as moderate and 80 as severe, including two cases involving multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).
The MIS-C cases are a fully vaccinated five-year-old boy with a congenital heart defect and a fully vaccinated nine-year-old girl with no underlying health issues, the center said.
The two children have been discharged from hospital after responding well to treatment, it said.
New Taipei City reported the most new COVID-19 cases, with 7,431, followed by Taichung with 5,196, Kaohsiung with 4,687, Taoyuan with 4,062, Taipei with 3,781 and Tainan with 3,394, the CECC said.
Changhua County recorded 2,191 cases, Pingtung County 1,384, Hsinchu County 909, Yunlin County 869, Hsinchu City 869, Miaoli County 828, Nantou County 728 and Yilan County 686, it said.
Chiayi County reported 684 cases, Keelung 552, Hualien County 480, Chiayi City 468, Taitung County 269, Kinmen County 139, Penghu County 136 and Lienchiang County 20, it said.
As of yesterday, Taiwan had recorded 7,341,966 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, including 35,899 classified as imported, CECC data showed.
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