China News Service, August 29. According to a report from Taiwan's Zhongshi News Network, the epidemic of Taiwan's Omikron BA.5 variant strain is heating up. The Taiwan Epidemic Epidemic Command Center announced on the 29th that 20,160 new local cases were reported, and the island also appeared for the first time. BA.5 deaths.
Luo Yijun, deputy head of the Medical Response Team of the Command Center, explained that the new deaths announced on the 29th were all over 50 years old, and no children and adolescents were severely ill. However, one death case announced on the 24th was confirmed by genetic sequencing as BA. 5 cases, the first confirmed BA.5 death on the island.
In addition, last week, there were 94 new cases of local Omicron BA.5 mutants in the island last week, all of which were sporadic cases. Luo Yijun reminded that the number of new BA.5 cases last week doubled from the previous week, showing that BA.5 has become the mainstream trend in the island.