Compared with the previous week, the number of deaths increased by 40%, and the number of deaths increased every day. The epidemic situation of COVID-19 in Taiwan is heating up again. COVID-19 | epidemic situation | COVID-19 epidemic situation in Taiwan
Based on the number of severe cases, the total number of confirmed cases was estimated, with an average of 28000 new cases per day last week.
On the 7th, China Times News reported that a doctor posted on social media exposing the situation of frontline consultations, stating that confirmed patients were crowded with clinics, and this week there were more patients than last week, with consultations scheduled until 10pm.
This otolaryngologist also stated last week that May was supposed to be a season with fewer respiratory infections, but confirmed patients crowded the clinic. According to clinical observation, most patients with COVID-19 have severe cold symptoms, including fever, severe cough, sore throat, headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, etc., and 10% of them have lost their sense of smell and taste.
In addition, according to the Central News Agency, Lianhe News Network and other Taiwan media reports, the "CDC" said at the regular news conference on the epidemic situation every Tuesday that all indicators of COVID-19 infection showed a continuous increase in moderate and severe cases, but the positive rates of mild diseases and residential institutions were basically flat and slightly decreased, indicating that the epidemic situation of mild diseases may have reached its peak.
In terms of variant strain monitoring, 136 confirmed cases of Omicron subtype variant were detected. Among them, 71 local cases were 53 XBB, 15 BA.2.75, and 3 BQ.1, respectively. The virus strain XBB accounts for 65% and has become the mainstream strain, followed by BA. 2.75, which accounts for 32%.
It is reported that the influenza epidemic in Taiwan is also at its peak. Last week, the number of outpatients and emergency patients with influenza reached 79205, an increase of 3.5% over the previous week. Another 18 cases of influenza complicated with severe illness and 4 deaths, of which one death was a four-year-old boy, was the youngest case this year.
In addition, last week there were 18 new local cases of monkeypox, setting a new weekly record with a total of 146 confirmed cases.