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Taiwan's 4th COVID-19 wave has reached plateau: CDC

ROC Central News Agency

06/13/2023 04:43 PM

Taipei, June 13 (CNA) Taiwan's fourth wave of COVID-19 infections has reached a plateau that is likely to last through the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday.

At its weekly press briefing, the CDC said Taiwan had reported an average of 245 moderate to severe COVID-19 cases per day from June 7 to 13, remaining more or less even with the daily average of 244 recorded the week before.

Meanwhile, the number of deaths from COVID-19 complications averaged 35 per day from June 4 to 10, up from 28 per day in the previous seven-day period, the CDC said.

In random testing on 74 locally transmitted cases last week, 62 were found to be of the Omicron XBB subvariant, while the other 12 involved the BA.2.75 subvariant, the health agency said.

Those numbers were largely consistent with data gathered over the last month, which has identified XBB as the dominant COVID-19 strain in the country, accounting for 72 percent of cases, while BA.2.75 has accounted for 25 percent of infections, the CDC said.

CDC Deputy Director General Lo Yi-chun (羅一鈞) said his agency estimated that the current wave of infections had reached a peak and would remain in a "plateau period" for the rest of June.

While the number of serious cases remained flat last week for the first time during the recent surge, it will take another week or two to determine whether those cases will begin to decline, Lo said.

(By Shen Pei-yao and Matthew Mazzetta)

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