On October 15, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced four new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. All those cases are imported. The CECC announced no deaths today.
Regarding the four new imported cases, they are one man and three women, aged between 10 to 39 years old. They arrived in Taiwan from Indonesia, the Philippines, the US, and Mongolia. They arrived between October 1 and October 13.
The CECC reported that a total of 3,687,649 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 3,670,437. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 16,325 cases. Of the 16,325 confirmed cases, 1,688 are imported; 14,583 are domestic; 36 are naval crew members aboard the Panshi fast combat support ship; 3 are infections on an aircraft; 1 case has unknown sources of infection; 14 cases' sources of infection are being investigated, and a cumulative total of 110 cases have been removed from the list of confirmed cases. There have been a cumulative total of 846 COVID-19 deaths since 2020; of the 846 deaths, 834 are from domestic cases and the other 12 are from imported cases.