Taiwan on Tuesday reported 10 new cases of COVID-19, all contracted overseas, with zero deaths from the disease, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).

The new COVID-19 cases are made up of seven Taiwanese and three foreign nationals, who traveled to Taiwan from the United States, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia, the CECC said.

To date, Taiwan has confirmed a total of 16,752 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began in early 2020, of which 14,427 are domestic infections reported since May 15, 2021, when the country first recorded more than 100 cases in a single day.

Daily domestic case numbers have fallen to mostly single digits or zero since Aug. 15, and only one such case, involving a former researcher at Academia Sinica, has been reported in the past month.

With no new deaths reported Tuesday, the number of confirmed COVID-19 fatalities remains at 848, with all but 12 recorded since May 15. Taiwan last reported a death related to COVID-19 on Nov. 9.

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel