(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) More than 30,000 new local cases in Taiwan Officials say they don't care about the "black numbers" in the community
China News Agency, Taipei, May 5th, the "epidemic epidemic command center" of the radio authority announced on the 5th that there were 30,035 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Taiwan, 71 imported cases, and 5 new deaths.
The relevant person in charge said that Taiwan is moving towards coexistence with the virus.
According to media reports such as "United Daily News" and the Central News Agency, compared with 28,420 cases the previous day, the number of new local cases on that day increased by about 5.7%.
The new deaths ranged in age from their 20s to their 80s and were all severe cases with a history of chronic disease.
In the past few days, due to the severe epidemic situation on the island, the rapid screening reagents are insufficient, and the hospital emergency resources are even more crowded.
The "epidemic epidemic command center" announced on the 5th that the definition of new coronary pneumonia cases will be relaxed. If home isolation, self-epidemic prevention, and quarantine are positive for quick screening tests and confirmed by medical staff, they are confirmed, and they do not need to go to the hospital for nucleic acid test confirmation. , in order to reduce the related administrative and medical burden.
As for the public's concern that the shortage of quick screening reagents will cause many people to be unable to screen, or to avoid affecting their work, they will be reluctant to screen, so that the community will hide "black numbers" of infected people (that is, those who are actually infected, but have not been detected or discovered because they are not detected, etc.) The reason is not included in the official statistics of confirmed cases), Chen Shizhong, head of the "epidemic epidemic command center", said on the same day that he no longer cares about the "black numbers" in the community, and the focus is to cure the severely ill patients.
He also said that it is now gradually moving towards coexistence with the virus.
The health and welfare affairs department of the Taiwan authorities has stipulated that if a service worker or service object is diagnosed in a community-based long-term care institution, the service must be suspended for 10 days.
The department announced on the 5th that this provision has been decided to cancel.
As of the 5th, a total of 232,402 new coronary pneumonia cases have been confirmed in Taiwan, including 220,737 local cases; a total of 886 deaths.
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