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A two-year-old boy is hospitalized with severe COVID-19 symptoms, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday, as it reported 1,199 new local cases. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, told the center’s daily news conference that nine new cases were classified as moderate and one — the boy — as severe. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division, said the boy had developed encephalitis and multiple organ dysfunction due to COVID-19, despite ...

By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterA two-year-old boy is hospitalized with severe COVID-19 symptoms, the Central Epidemic Command Center （CECC） said yesterday, as it reported 1,199 new local cases.

Taiwan’s local COVID-19 case count might reach 10,000 per day and a cummulative total of more than 1 million Taiwanese might be infected by the end of the month, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said yesterday, as the nation posted a daily record of 1,209 new domestic cases. Chen said that rather than suppressing the spread of the ongoing outbreak involving the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the nation should strive to reduce its damage, as Omicron cases usually have mild or no symptoms. The means to that end sh...

DOMESTIC CASE RECORD: The government is to introduce a rationing system that would allow people to buy kits at a cheaper rate by registering with their health cardBy Lee Hsin-fang and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA

The government has begun to requisition COVID-19 rapid test kits, with an aim to distribute 40 million kits each month to meet public demand, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday. Su made the remarks at the weekly Cabinet meeting amid calls by opposition lawmakers to regulate the supply of rapid tests and keep prices down. In addition to requisitioning kits from domestic and overseas manufacturers, the armed forces also are to help with domestic production, Su said. The need for the kits increased as local COVID-19 cases have increased since the Tomb Sweeping Day long weekend earl...