Thread by @WilliamYang120

Breaking: #Taiwan reported 129 new cases and 6 deaths.

New Taipei; 54 Taipei: 35

Chen said the percentage of those discharged has reached 71.7%.

Chen said while the number has slightly uptick since yesterday and today, the overall trend is going down.

Chen said the CECC has meeting with New Taipei City and Taipei City and the very strong consensus is that some case investigation wasn't done thoroughly during the peak of the outbreak, but they say it's very important to conduct thorough investigation of all relevant cases.

He laid out the details about how hospitals should categorize close contacts and identify those who need to be quarantined so he is reminding all hospitals to carefully conduct relevant tasks.

#COVID19 self-test kits are now available at drugstores and pharmacies and once citizens confirmed those are the once approved by the CECC, they can purchase them and conduct the test accordingly.

Those tested positive should contact the local health authorities or go to a nearby hospital for further tests and those who are tested negative should conduct self-health monitoring and properly dispose the test kits.

26 autopsy results from those who died following vaccination and 23 of those have chronic disease history and none have direct connection to vaccination.

The CECC said the overall trend of new deaths will slightly go down and they will inform the public about the new stats in a week.

Chen said the overall trend is more important than the daily numbers and he said the slight uptick has something to do with the new clusters so he said it's important to identify histories of the new cases and conduct the necessary operations to contain the spread of virus.

US CDC's data shows that the number of young man between 12 to 39 who develops Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy after receiving the second dose of mRNA vaccines is higher than expected but most have all recovered nicely.

Chen said there are areas that the CECC needs to do better so they will focus on that and observe the trend of the outbreak develops.

CHen said there is a sign of slowing vaccination rate over the last few days so the CECC will work harder to promote the benefits of being vaccinated.

Chen said there are no cases of local governments retracting vaccines and he said there are 350,000 doses of #COVID19 vaccines across all local governments so he hopes the governments can enhance the vaccination rate over the next few days.

The CECC said they continue to follow the arrangement of digital vaccination proof for the possible development of "vaccine passport" and they said they continue to understand how other countries are handling relevant issues and also let them know how Taiwan is preparing it.

Finally, someone asking the right question about German Chancellor Angela Merkel mixing AZ with the Moderna vaccine.

Chen said there still isn't enough scientific data to support the overall trend of mixing AZ vaccine with Moderna so the experts will continue to observe the trend of such practices and if there are more proof to support such practice.

Chen said if there is an obvious sign of slowed vaccination, they will preserve a certain amount of vaccines for the prioritized group and open up the vaccines to other groups.

Chen said there needs to be more evidence to determine whether to start offering the third jab to citizens but he said now #Taiwan can't even have enough vaccines for everyone to get the first dose so that will be the priority and they will keep observing relevant data.

Alright, that's it. Just a heads up, I think I'm finding it less motivated to keep up these daily #Taiwan #COVID19 threads so I probably will stop this over the next few days indefinitely. Information in these pressers has been rather too scattered.