CECC confirms 10 more imported COVID-19 cases


PublishTime:2021-11-19
On November 19, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced ten new confirmed imported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. The CECC announced no deaths today.

Regarding the ten new imported cases, they are five men and five women, aged between 10 to 39 years old. They arrived in Taiwan from Cambodia, Indonesia (four cases), Mongolia, Vietnam, the Philippines (two cases), and Poland. They arrived between April 23 and November 17.

The CECC reported that a total of 4,286,175 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 4,268,229. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 16,516 cases. Of the 16,516 confirmed cases, 1,872 are imported; 14,590 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 111 cases have been removed from the list of confirmed cases. There have been a cumulative total of 848 COVID-19 deaths since 2020; of the 848 deaths, 836 are from domestic cases and the other 12 are from imported cases.