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　　(Fighting once morest New Coronary Pneumonia) Taiwan’s epidemic rebounded slightly and the number of new cases exceeded 40,000

China News Service, Taipei, June 28 (Xinhua) — The “epidemic command center” of the Taiwan authorities announced on the 28th that there were 44,379 new locally confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, 93 severe cases, and 103 deaths. The number of new local cases and deaths rebounded slightly from previous days.

According to reports from Taiwanese media such as the Central News Agency, Zhongshi News Network, and United News Network, the “command center” said that the more new cases were due to the “weekend effect”. Only following the clinic is open on Monday can we see a doctor and report the number of positive test results, so the number of new diagnoses has changed a lot. Compared with the number of confirmed cases last Tuesday, the number of new confirmed cases announced on the 28th decreased by 21%, and the total number of confirmed cases in Taiwan is also decreasing at a rate of regarding 80,000 cases per week.

Regarding the outside speculation that the newly diagnosed cases in Taiwan may fall below 10,000 in mid-July, the “command center” said that “the rate of decline was not as fast as expected.”

According to the announcement on the same day, among the new severe cases, there is a case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a 1-year-old boy, who is the youngest case in Taiwan with related symptoms. The patient was discharged on the 27th following treatment with immunoglobulin and steroids. At present, the total number of severe cases in children under the age of 12 in Taiwan has accumulated to 70, of which 20 have died.

In addition, it was announced on the same day that the deaths ranged from their 30s to their 90s, all of them were severe infections, 97 had a history of chronic disease, and 60 had not received 3 doses of the vaccine. Among the new local cases, counties and cities in central and southern Taiwan are the main ones. Among them, there were 6,397 new cases in Taichung City, 5,816 new cases in Kaohsiung City, and 5,653 new cases in New Taipei City.

In addition, as to whether the BA.4 variant strain and BA.5 variant strain of Omicron, which are concerned by the outside world, will soon appear local cases, the “command center” said that the virus sequence currently mainly circulating in Taiwan is Omicron BA.2 It is expected that a small wave of new mutant strains will appear around August.

Up to now, there have been more than 3.68 million confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Taiwan, including more than 3.67 million local cases; a total of 6,448 deaths, including 6,433 local cases. Since the beginning of this year, there have been more than 3.61 million local confirmed cases in Taiwan, and a total of 5,595 deaths. (Finish)