Taiwan reported 34,556 new local cases of COVID-19 on Friday.
More than a fifth of the people with new cases of COVID are from New Taipei, with 6,048 people there testing positive. Another 4,868 have the disease in Taichung, along with 4,207 in Kaohsiung.
Another 57 people have died from COVID-19. Most were over the age of 80, and only about a third had taken three doses of a COVID vaccine.
Authorities say another 147 people are suffering from moderate or severe symptoms of the disease.
Taiwan also recorded 46 imported cases of COVID-19 on Friday.