Taiwan records first COVID-19 Omicron death

Taiwan on Tuesday recorded the country's first death from the highly contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19 along with 45 new COVID-19 cases, including five that were transmitted domestically, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).

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