There were 16,902 new cases today, an increase of 2.3% from last Monday. After two consecutive days of decline from the same period of the previous week, there was another increase, but the increase slowed down.

(Provided by Command Center)

[Reporter Lin Huiqin/Report from Taipei] The Central Epidemic Command Center announced today that there were 16,902 new cases of local Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19), an increase of 2.3% from last Monday. After that, it rose again, but the increase slowed down; 40 new deaths were added.

In addition, 416 new cases were imported from abroad.

16,902 new local cases, 7,757 males, 9,124 females, 21 cases under investigation, aged from under 5 to over 90 years old, the cases are distributed in New Taipei City (3,299 cases), Taichung City (2,290 cases) , Taoyuan City (1,987 cases), Kaohsiung City (1,925 cases), Taipei City (1,753 cases), Tainan City (1,309 cases), Changhua County (763 cases), Hsinchu County (524 cases), Miaoli County (420 cases), Hsinchu City (407 cases), Yunlin County (342 cases), Pingtung County (334 cases), Keelung City (284 cases), Nantou County (264 cases), Chiayi County (251 cases), Yilan County (242 cases) , Hualien County (159 cases), Chiayi City (149 cases), Kinmen County (89 cases), Taitung County (65 cases), Penghu County (41 cases), Lianjiang County (5 cases).

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40 new local cases died, including 24 males and 16 females, aged from 40 to over 90 years old, all of them were severe infections, 39 cases had a history of chronic diseases, and 24 cases had not been vaccinated for more than 3 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

The date of diagnosis ranged from November 5 last year to January 5 this year, and the date of death ranged from December 28 last year to January 6 this year.

Among the 416 new imported cases, there were 258 males and 158 females, ranging in age from less than 5 years old to over 70 years old.

The date of entry is between December 9 last year and January 8 this year.

According to statistics from the command center, as of now, a total of 9,072,505 confirmed cases have been confirmed in China, including 43,032 imported cases, 9,029,419 local cases, 36 Dunmu Fleet cases, 3 aircraft infections, 1 unknown case and 14 cases under investigation.

Of these, 15,582 died, including 15,563 locals and 19 immigrants.

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