Taipei, Aug. 11 (CNA) Taiwan recorded 14 COVID-19 deaths and 72 cases involving severe complications between Aug. 4 and 10, the highest weekly total during the current domestic COVID-19 wave, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday. At a regular news briefing, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said that since October last year, Taiwan has recorded 337 domestic COVID-19 cases involving severe complications, including 42 deaths. The CDC said there were 24,645 COVID-19-related outpatient and emergency room visits between Aug. 2 and 8, up 27.6 percent from 19,307 the previous week. Although the number of visits continued to rise, the increase was slower than in previous weeks, when weekly visits jumped by between 66 percent and 117 percent, the CDC said. Lee said that of the 337 severe cases recorded since October, 73.9 percent involved people aged 65 or older, while 84 percent had underlying chronic conditions and 89.6 percent had not received this season's COVID-19 vaccine.