Zhuang Renxiang, a spokesman for the Epidemic Command Center, explained the latest outbreak.

(provided by the command center)

[Reporter Lin Huiqin/Taipei Report] There were 43,241 new cases of local Wuhan pneumonia yesterday, an increase of 11.

5%, and the number of new cases has risen for a week in a row compared to the same period last week.

Zhuang Renxiang, a spokesman for the Central Epidemic Command Center, said the number of cases in the last week had increased by six.

6%, the current epidemic is at a plateau, and it may continue to rise slightly this week.

There are 154 new cases of moderate and severe cases, and 62 new deaths. Experts believe that there is no significant increase in severe cases and deaths. It is expected that after the opening of the country, the medical volume will be able to sustain.

Weekly increase of 6.6% may continue to rise slightly this week

The number of new local cases was 8789 in New Taipei City, followed by 5475 in Taichung City and 4848 in Taipei City.

In addition, there were 66 new cases of overseas immigration.

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Zhuang Renxiang explained that the recent slight increase in the epidemic situation is estimated to be due to the sudden rise after the previous Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, which caused the weekend of the recent week to appear to grow a little more than the same period when the previous week was at a low point.

Statistics from September 25 to October 1 were 296,576 cases, an increase of 6.6% from the 278,096 cases from September 18 to 24.

6%, it is judged that the epidemic is still at a plateau, and it may still rise slightly this week, but it does not rule out the possibility of a decline.

There were 154 new cases of moderate and severe cases, including 98 cases of moderate disease and 56 cases of severe disease. One of the children with severe severe disease was an 11-year-old boy who suffered from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and had no chronic diseases. Shi, who received a dose of vaccine, was diagnosed with Wuhan pneumonia on July 7.

Since September 22, he has had fever, abdominal pain, headache, cough, etc. He went to the emergency department on the 25th with an elevated inflammatory index and abnormal coagulation function. After hospitalization, his condition improved and he was discharged on 30th.

A total of 235 cases of severe children were reported, of which 34 died.

There were 62 new deaths, ranging from 50 to 90 years old, 58 with a history of chronic diseases, and no special cases.

Qiu Nanchang, executive supervisor of the Taiwan Children's Infectious Diseases Medical Association, said that there are still more than 40,000 local cases every day, but there is no sudden outbreak that makes the medical volume unbearable.

Due to a certain proportion of vaccination and natural infection, the newly diagnosed patients are mainly mild or asymptomatic, and the number of severe cases and deaths has not increased significantly, and the most worrying medical collapse has not occurred.

Qiu Nanchang believes that the opening of the country is expected to increase overseas immigration, but it is estimated that the amount of medical treatment can be eaten.

Just remind the public that although masks cannot completely prevent infection, they can block the amount of virus entering the body and reduce the risk of severe illness.

He suggested wearing a mask when going to crowded places. If you have symptoms, you can get screened. If you don't want to be screened, don't go near others. You should have a sense of public morality to reduce the risk of infection.

The cumulative number of local cases this year is more than 649,000, of which 28,341 are moderately severe and 10,309 have died.