COVID-19: Blood shortage due to outbreak worsens amid rainsStaff Writer, with CNAThe Taiwan Blood Services Foundation yesterday called on the public to donate blood, as Taiwan’s blood banks on average had 4.1 days of blood supply, well below the official safe level of seven days. The shortage is mainly because of surging blood demand from hospitals across Taiwan, where regular surgeries have resumed after a nationwide COVID-19 outbreak was brought under control, Lin said. About 40,000 fewer bags of blood have been donated in Taiwan since the middle of May, when the COVID-19 outbreak started, Lin said. Supplies of type A blood was at 3.6 days, type O at 3.7 days and type B at 5.5 days, it said. The city’s blood banks on average only had 2.5 days of blood supply, it added.

Source: Taipei Times August 08, 2021 15:56 UTC