CECC reports 297 new domestic cases
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By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 297 new local COVID-19 cases, 258 backlogged cases and 19 deaths.
While the center’s disease prevention measures over the past two weeks have helped reduce the spread of the disease, they have not been able to curb the outbreak, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, told a daily news briefing in Taipei.
The daily number of local cases over the past two weeks has remained consistent, showing no sign of declining, Chen said.
Turning a blind eye to the increasingly rampant outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic on the island of Taiwan, with new local cases growth at a record high, the secessionist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority has yet to waver in its pursuit of secessionism and profits at the cost of Taiwan residents lives, as it refuses to adopt the universal measures used by the Chinese mainland, which had proved effective in taming the outbreak in the mainland, observers said on Thursday.
Hospital beds in southern areas will be made available after hospitals in northern Taiwan asked to divert patients, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said at a national COVID-19 pandemic prevention meeting yesterday.
National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) superintendent Wu Ming-shiang (吳明賢) on Wednesday wrote on Facebook that the hospital had no more room for inpatients after an influx of more than 100, including 20 who were severely ill.
Despite telling the Taipei Fire Department that it had no more beds, people are still being wheeled into its emergency room with the expectation that they would be admitted to an intensive care