CECC confirms 10 more imported COVID-19 cases


On December 21, 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 20 to 59 years old. They arrived in Taiwan from Columbia, the US (two cases), Cambodia, Vietnam, the UK (three cases), and Indonesia (two cases). They arrived between November 22 and December 19.

The CECC reported that a total of 4,794,007 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 4,775,550. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 16,826 cases. Of the 16,826 confirmed cases, 2,173 are imported; 14,599 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 850 COVID-19 deaths since 2020; of the 850 deaths, 838 are from domestic cases and the other 12 are from imported cases.
 
PublishTime 2021/12/21