Three new domestic cases with unknown source of infection: CECC
ROC Central News Agency
08/31/2021 04:55 PM
Taipei, Aug. 31 (CNA) Taiwan on Tuesday reported four new COVID-19 cases -- three transmitted domestically and one contracted overseas -- and one death from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
Of the three domestic cases, two were reported in New Taipei and one in Taipei, Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said at the daily CECC press briefing.
Health authorities are still investigating how all three contracted the disease, Chen said.
According to the New Taipei City government, one of the two new patients there was confirmed to have COVID-19 after feeling unwell, while the other tested positive when accompanying a relative to the hospital and is likely to have contracted the disease a while ago.
The imported case reported Tuesday is a British national who traveled to Taiwan recently for work, according to the CECC.
The single death was a man in his 60s who passed away on Aug. 30, according to the CECC.
To date, Taiwan has confirmed a total of 15,995 COVID-19 cases, of which 14,364 are domestic infections reported since May 15, when the country first recorded more than 100 cases in a single day.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the country has risen to 835, with all but 12 recorded since May 15, CECC data showed.
Just over 10 million people, or 42.6 percent of Taiwan's 23.5 million population, has received one COVID-19 vaccine shot, but only 3.8 percent, or 900,651 people, have had the two doses needed to be fully vaccinated.
(By Chiang Yi-ching)
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