The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today the first local case of Omicron BA.4 in Taiwan, a male in his 30s in the north. All 3 members of his family were positive, and it was suspected to be a family cluster; 33 new local cases of BA.5 were added today. , accounting for 15% of the country.
The BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the new crown pneumonia Omicron have spread again internationally, and there have been sporadic community transmissions in Taiwan. The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today that there were 121 new confirmed cases of Omicron subtype variants BA.4 and BA.5 in China, including 34 local cases and 87 imported cases, respectively. Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team of the command center, explained at the press conference on the epidemic in the afternoon that the gene sequencing results of 234 local cases were carried out last week. 33 BA.5 native cases.
Luo Yijun further explained that the first local case of BA.4 in Taiwan was newly added today. The case is a male in his 30s in the north. He developed throat discomfort and other symptoms on August 5 this year, and he tested positive on August 9. He went to the hospital for a PCR test on the same day. Confirmed diagnosis, Ct value of 16, tested positive for rapid screening and PCR of 3 people in the same family, and suspected to be a family cluster. Currently, they are all under home care and isolation, and the sequencing results are still pending.
In addition, 33 new local cases of BA.5 were detected last week, including 22 in the north, 8 in the central and 3 in the south. Luo Yijun said that 7 of them were children and adolescents, and they were all asymptomatic or mild at present. The 8 cases in the middle are all sporadic cases. It seems that there are sporadic cases of BA.5 in the community, and it is expected that the proportion will gradually increase and grow steadily in the future.
There are currently 58 local cases of BA.5 strains and 1 case of BA.4 local strains. Luo Yijun said that the BA.5 cases have not been severe yet, and the BA.5 local cases account for about 15% of the national ordinal number. 17 to 19% in the central part, about 6% in the southern part, and no detection in the eastern part. At present, it seems that BA.4 and BA.5 are not relatively high in terms of hospitalization rate and severe disease rate, but only have strong transmission. In addition, 87 new cases of BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.75 were added to the overseas immigration, accounting for 96% of the overseas immigration. BA.5 accounts for the majority of imported cases, 89% of which are BA.5. There were also 3 new cases of BA.2.75 imported from India this week, all of them were male, 30-60 years old, who came from their own country and not family members , a total of 5 foreign immigrants, 4 India, 1 Thailand.
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