The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 320 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections, 166 backlogged cases and 21 deaths.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that among the 320 local infections, 169 are male and 151 are female, from under the age of five to over 90.
They began displaying symptoms from May 7 to Friday, he said.
Of the 486 cases reported yesterday, 224 live in New Taipei City, followed by Taipei with 168 cases, Taichung with 33, Taoyuan with 19, Keelung with 14, Taitung and Yilan counties with five each, and Hualien and Chiayi
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Taipei, May 28 (CNA) A 36-year-old Taiwanese man from New Taipei has died just one day after testing positive for COVID-19, making him possibly the youngest victim in Taiwan to die from the virus if it is confirmed that it was the cause of death.