Crown disease became the third largest death in Taiwan last year after cancer and hear

The Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan said that the crown disease epidemic became the third cause of the Taiwanese in 2022, second only to cancer and heart disease.

According to Taiwan reports, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on Monday (June 12) to announce the statistical results of the top ten causes of death in Taiwan last year.Statistics show that in 2022, the top ten causes of death in Taiwan are in order: malignant tumors (cancer), cardiac disease, crown disease, pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, accident damage, chronic lower respiratory disease, nephritis and nephropathy syndrome clusterAnd kidney disease.Compared with 2021, cancer and heart disease still ranks among the top two.

In 2021, the crown disease epidemic only killed 896 people in Taiwan, but the number of people who died in the following year rose to 14,667, and the ranking also rose from 19th to third place.The age of death due to crown disease is mainly distributed over 65 years old, accounting for more than 80 %, and the median death age is 82 years, an increase of 10 years from 2021.

Luo Yijun, deputy director of the Taiwan CDC, explained that 2022 is the largest wave of local immocoys in Taiwan, causing more than 10,000 people to die.According to statistics from economics, the number of excess deaths in Taiwan in 2022 was 22,852, which was gapd up to the number of deaths by about 24,000 compared with the previous year.It is not directly related to the crown disease epidemic, but is caused by indirect or other chronic diseases.

Luo Yijun also said that the number of deaths caused by the British, the United States, Canada and other countries in the major epidemic year, and the number of deaths caused by the crown disease also jumped between the first to fourth place of the death of the year, which is similar to Taiwan's experience.EssenceSince this year (2023), Taiwan has accumulated 5,157 cases of death due to a crown disease epidemic.Luo Yijun estimates that among the top ten causes of death this year, the crown disease epidemic may still be on the list.