Taiwan reports 124 Covid-19 deaths, including 9-year-old boy, but island ‘closer to peak’
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The island’s Central Epidemic Command Centre reported 124 deaths, down from a record 152 on Saturday.
The self-ruled island also reported 62,080 new locally transmitted cases on Sunday, lower than the 68,118 cases reported a day earlier. There were a total of 30 imported cases, the health authority said on Sunday.
The youngest of the most recent Covid-19 fatalities was a nine-year-old boy. He had suffered from congenital heart disease and was infected with Covid-19 while in hospital before dying from multiple organ failure.
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Among the island’s adult population, 90 per cent have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and 82.05 per cent have received their second dose, according to Health Minister Chen Shih-chung.