TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) reported on Friday, October 15, four imported cases of COVID-19, half of which were vaccinated with China’s Sinovac.

CECC spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥) announced four imported COVID cases and no local infections. The CECC has not announced any deaths, leaving the total death toll from COVID at 846.

Imported cases

According to Chuang, the four imported cases reported on Friday include a man and three women between the ages of 10 and 30. 16,433), the Philippines (case 16,434) and Mongolia (case 16,435).

Revolutionary infections

Philip Lo (羅一鈞), deputy head of CECC’s medical intervention division, said the four imported infections are classified as breakthrough cases. A breakthrough infection is defined as a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 at least 14 days after completing the full immunization schedule.

Lo said Case 16,432, an Indonesian teenage girl, and Case 16,435, a Mongolian woman in her 20s, had both been fully vaccinated with Sinovac. Case 16,433, an American in her 30s, and Case 16,434, a Filipina in her 20s, received the full regimen of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, respectively.

From July 2 to October 15, Taiwan reported 510 imported cases of COVID. Of these, 145 were classified as pierced infections, accounting for 28.4% of imported cases.

COVID case statistics

Since the start of the epidemic, Taiwan has performed 3,687,649 COVID tests, of which 3,670,437 have come back negative. Of the 16,325 confirmed cases, 1,688 were imported, 14,583 were local, 36 were from the Navy’s “goodwill fleet”, three were from a group of cargo pilots and one was an unresolved case.

A total of 110 people have been withdrawn as confirmed cases, while 14 cases are still under investigation. So far, 846 people have died from the disease.

Of the 834 deaths from local infections, 412 were in New Taipei, 319 in Taipei, 29 in Keelung, 27 in Taoyuan, 15 in Changhua County, 13 in Hsinchu County, five in Taichung, three in County de Miaoli, two each in Yilan and Hualien Counties, and one each in Hsinchu Town, Nantou County, Yunlin County, Tainan Town, Kaohsiung Town, Pingtung County and Taitung. The other 12 deaths were imported cases.