(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Taiwan's newly confirmed cases exceed 50,000 new crown special wards are overloaded
China News Agency, Taipei, May 10th, the "epidemic command center" of the radio authority announced on the 10th that there were 50,828 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Taiwan, including 50,780 local cases and 48 imported cases; another 12 new deaths were added.
The number of newly diagnosed cases in New Taipei City and Taipei City both exceeded 10,000, with 16,906 and 10,283 cases, respectively.
According to Taiwanese media reports such as the Central News Agency and the United News Network, the center said that eight men and four women died that day, including a pregnant woman in her 20s.
The woman was diagnosed at about 30 weeks of pregnancy and had an emergency caesarean section after experiencing breathing difficulties, but the fetus was not saved.
Counties and cities have started to open up children aged 6 to 11 to receive the Moderna vaccine from the 2nd, but many parents are worried about the side effects of the vaccine and hope that their children can be vaccinated with the BNT children's vaccine.
Chen Shizhong, the head of the "Command Center", said recently that the first batch of BNT children's vaccines will arrive in Taiwan on the 12th, with an estimated 777,600 doses.
Chen Shizhong said on the 10th that BNT's "information system has problems", and the arrival time of the children's vaccine in Taiwan has not been determined.
The epidemic continues to expand, and medical staff report that their work is overloaded, especially in the special ward for treating new crown patients. In the case of insufficient nursing manpower, the "command center" still requires each nursing staff to take care of 10 to 20 confirmed patients at the same time.
Taiwan's "United Daily News" reported that this move adversely affects the care of patients and the safety of medical staff.
Media person Chen Yuqi wrote in an article that medical staff may also be infected with the epidemic, and they may face the dilemma of re-infection after returning to work after their condition improves.
According to China Times News, the Taiwan Railway Administration (referred to as "Taiwan Railway") announced on the same day that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the lack of crew manpower, 94 local trains will be suspended from the 14th, and the resumption date will be announced separately.
Wang Guocai, head of the traffic affairs department of the Taiwan authorities, confirmed on the 9th that five drivers of the Taiwan Railway were diagnosed and four were quarantined.
As of the 10th, a total of 448,323 cases of new coronary pneumonia have been diagnosed in Taiwan, of which 436,306 have been diagnosed locally; a total of 943 deaths have been reported, including 928 local deaths.
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