China News Service, May 16. According to Taiwan's "Central News Agency", the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center announced on the 16th that there were 61,697 new confirmed local cases of new coronary pneumonia, 148 new cases of moderately severe and 29 deaths among the confirmed cases; 57 new cases were imported from abroad.

  According to reports, the number of new local cases in Taiwan has exceeded 60,000 for 5 consecutive days.