CECC confirms 79 more COVID-19 cases, including 18 domestic cases and 61 imported cases


On February 11, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced 79 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Of the 71 cases, 18 are domestic and 61 are imported (32 of them tested positive after landing). The CECC announced no deaths today.

Regarding the domestic cases, they are seven men and 11 women, aged between under five and 69 years.

Regarding the 61 new imported cases, 29 are male and 30 are female while the gender of the other two is being investigated. They are between under five and 89 years old. 36 of them arrived from the US (11 cases), the Philippines (five cases), Singapore (four cases), India (three cases), the UK (two cases), Australia, Canada, Korea, Bangladesh, Mexico, France, Vietnam, Germany, the UAE, Myanmar, and Brazil; the areas where the remaining 25 cases arrived are being investigated. They all arrived between January 13 and February 10, 2022.

Additionally, the imported Case #18842, Case #19067, and Case #19100 have been reclassified as domestic cases according to virus sequence information and an epidemiological investigation.

The CECC reported that a total of 5,918,661 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 5,898,487. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 19,455 cases. Of the 19,455 confirmed cases, 4,105 are imported; 15,296 are domestic; 36 are naval crew members aboard the Panshi fast combat support ship; 3 are infections on an aircraft; 1 case has an unknown source of infection; 14 cases' sources of infection are being investigated, and a cumulative total of 130 cases have been removed from the list of confirmed cases. There have been a cumulative total of 851 COVID-19 deaths since 2020; of the 851 deaths, 838 are from domestic cases and the other 13 are from imported cases.
 
PublishTime 2022/2/11